💬 Post
Open Concept for Development
Target Audience: Developers working with video playback, browser extensions, or computer vision
🧩 Problem
With the increasing use of QR codes in videos (e.g., tutorials, ads, events), there's no standardized way for viewers to interact with them — especially when they're small, in-scene, or time-limited.
Currently, users must:
- Pause the video
- Grab a phone
- Scan the QR from screen (if quality allows)
This breaks immersion and usability — especially on desktops or mobile-first web players.
🧠 Key Features
- QR Detection During Upload or Processing (less ideal during viewing via a plug-in)
- Detect in scene cell position and timing of QR appearance
Retrieve hyperlink and metadata to add to show a preview in the cell and add a title to the QR-node in the video timeline
Timeline-Based Hyperlink Nodes
Add visual QR-nodes to the video progress bar (combine and create an on hover list of items to prevent cluthering the timeline)
Clicking the node or the in-scene QR-cell opens the QR-reference in fullscreen with QR controls one in each corner:
🔳 toggle-QR
Scan-code or content preview
❌ close-full-screen
fullscreen or in-scene
🔗 open in new tab
Open as a new browser tab, video pauses
⧉ open in a popup windown
Open as a popup window, video continues
💡 Suggested Implementation Targets
- As a browser extension (Chrome/Firefox)
- As an add-on to Video.js or Plyr
- For platforms like YouTube (if permitted) or educational CMS players
🔍 Next Steps
Feel free to fork this concept and build upon it.
This feature could greatly benefit the usefullness of the QR technology
🔗 Contact
I am not a developer but open to collaboration, crediting, and further ideation.
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