2014-11-05 23:24 GMT+01:00 James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Moving the play button around, is much more an option. Again, I don't
think adding more cruft is a good idea, but e.g. bottom-left without a
timeslider, like BBC News does it, is also an option:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29919793
This one was really nice. Moving it down to the corner makes it worth while
chosing a meaningful thumbtime for the video, giving the viewer a hint of
what the video is about so that a more informed decision whether or not to
start it can be made. Totally obvious it is a video, and hardly no clutter
at all. This might be a winner, considering the thumbnails are fairly small
in our projects, comparing to embeds of Youtube which seldom is smaller
than 400 pixels wide.