We are about to rollout a “new new” video/audio player 
You can see it in action now with our upcoming embed codes to go with this new player.
It will allow for additional much wanted features like:
- off-site playlists
- fullscreen in many cases
- subtitles/captions
as well as the standard arbitrary width/height and “autoplay” options.
You can see some examples here:
http://www.archive.org/help/video.php
The rest is coming soon (if you are eager, you can even “opt in” now by clicking here:
http://www.archive.org/details/movies&newplayer=jw
(then take a look at one of your favorite items).
Now relax, sit back, and enjoy an archive video!
Cheers!
–tracey
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Dear Tracey,
The “New New” A/V Player is a triumph!
Thank you.
thanks, that made my morning when i saw that
Archive folks;
Love the site would be lost at work without it. However, I was really excited when I got my new IPhone 4 for Christmas and was able to have music play and be able to open up a new Internet browsing window and still listen to music while surfing the web., now it’s not an option. The new updated version does not allow for this. Is it temporary and will this be addressed once it is fully released and tweaked? Please try and fix or aid me in my turmoil.
Thanks
should be fixed! had a short-lived UI glitch for iOS and audio only
where the player *was* there, but the button was hard to find
(and required pinching way out / zoom in to kludge find and get to go).
I managed to track that down late last night and make it all work
so my iPhone4 and iPad2 now work and look great for audio!
let me/us know if any issues still for you!
Hello,
Fantastic work!! Love the new embed options!
The playlist feature is really nice. I was wondering, is there a way to add chapters or “Jump To” /seek to different areas on the same video. Like if the video is longer and if folks could jump to a specific area in the video in the same fashion as playlists?
Thanks again for your fantastic contribution to the archive!
Best Always,
Brian-
Yes, it is possible — to jump into the start of 1 audio/video file of an item. We havent documented it quite yet because I was waiting for our new player to be the player everywhere first and it’s possible it could change *slightly* but should be OK…
It’s a “start=[SECONDS]” parameter, which you can see as an example here:
http://www.archive.org/embed/commute?start=60
(It’s also autoplay only, at least right now)
You can combine with other parameters to play a specific video/audio file of an item, eg:
http://www.archive.org/embed/drake_saga1_shots/MVI_3985.AVI?start=5
hope that helps!
-Tracey