browserpedals 0.0.7

Control videos in web browser with pedals

Control any video or audio in a web browser with foot pedals (pause/play or jump back), even when the web browser is not in focus (for example, while typing in text editor).

This may be helpful during transcribing (listening to a video and typing the spoken text).

The program will attempt to recognize new foot pedals automatically.

There is an option to create subtitles: After every Play and Pause using pedals,

SRT subtitle timing for the played video fragment is copied to clipboard and can be pasted

into any text file before corresponding text fragment to make it an SRT subtitle.

There is an option to periodically pause a video and copy timestamps to clipboard.

(Under the hood, the program uses Selenium project to control the browser.)

To install the program on Linux, open command line and type:

$ python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir browserpedals

To use subtitles option on Linux, additionally install xclip:

$ sudo apt-get install xclip

To install the program on Windows, open command line or Windows PowerShell and type:

$ py -m pip install --no-cache-dir browserpedals

During the installation, BrowserPedals icon will be created on the Desktop. To run the program, double-click on this icon and wait for new browser window to open. In the browser, home page will open with information about the program and a pop-up dialog for detecting and testing the pedals.