Here is a custom player I built up from code snippets at the Youtube Video Bar Programming Page. I modified a little CSS and JavaScript code for a larger player (I like big players in 16x9) and a horizontal bar (I did not like the default vertical bar). I'll likely think of more mods and cleaning up I would like to do to it. Like why does Safari push the player way over to the right, while Firefox is OK? Hmm, a problem to solve.
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