HTML5 Video Voting

You’ve prepared a screencast, video presentation or promotional video, but you’re not quite sure how good it is. Perhaps you’d like to ask your users what parts of the video they like or dislike the most and why. Just imagine how difficult it would be to derive meaningful insight from notes that include ime stamps and references that you have to check manually in the video.

HTML5 Video Voting allows users to cast their votes in the timeline as the video is playing. All that users have to do is start the HTML5 video and use the space bar to submit their vote. The data then automatically populates the bar graph that is embedded in the video.

You will need a back-end system to receive and process the votes. Votes must be returned as a tally of all the votes for each column that you want to display (the developers used Ruby on Rails). A jQuery plug-in for quick embedding on your website is available as well. It was tested in Firefox 4+, Chrome 10+ and Safari 4+, but should work in IE9 as well. The source code can be forked on GitHub.