Videos on Ickonic features request

[emmanuelpoirier]

Hi

1/ close captioning of the main videos then all little by little: this is so important to catch all what you say for non native and hard of hearing people (up to 18 millions in UK according to https://rnid.org.uk/2024/06/why-the-number-of-people-with-hearing-loss-has-increased/)
Same for the videos you publish on youtube / elsewhere: grow your audience.

2/ better video player: it could be greater with fast forward 5 secs, fast rewind 5 secs, fast seeking, all controlled by keyboard shortcuts

3/ encode your video using h265 or AV1 so your bandwidth cost get halved and we get faster delivery cf https://encrypted-vtbn1.gstatic.com/video?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0kG8nDOvxKBytZ-o7iwRq_VQ511YpNba5RGUq9ZIjo7Wi-r2i

Could you add those features please?

[Gina Stenson]

Hey Emmanuel, thanks so much for the suggestions! Really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us 😊

Subtitles are definitely something we’ve wanted to work on for a while. Unfortunately, this year we’ve had to focus on a few other priorities, and we don’t quite have the resources to do everything at once. But it’s still something we really want to add to Ickonic in the future.

Thanks again for the feedback and support!

[Josh]

Hey Emmanuel, some more clarification on your technical requests:

1. the video player does support skip forward and back by 10 seconds, and you can use the arrow keys as shortcuts if you like

2. While H.265 and AV1 offer better compression, they don’t have reliable, universal device support yet (especially across browsers). Using H.264 as our baseline ensures consistent playback everywhere. Supporting newer codecs would still require an H.264 fallback for compatibility, which increases complexity (and storage costs) without a clear net benefit at our current scale.

Appreciate the feedback!

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