Yapo Video Player: understand a foreign language easily with your favorite movies and TV shows

Platforms
Apple
Team
Analyst
  iOS developer
  Project Manager
  Quality Assurance
The timing
2.5 months

Goals

Use watching movies / TV shows to improve knowledge of foreign languages

Tasks

Develop applications for watching movies and TV shows with subtitles

Solution

We came up with fast tap double tap before it became mainstream :)


Work

The client had an idea. We worked through it, together with him we drafted the technical documentation for the project and helped in the selection of technologies:
As a player, ffmpeg was selected. It has been adapted to the conditions of use with the ability to switch subtitles in real time, and for fast rewind.
One of the problems was that downloading content was possible only through iTunes, which very much scared many users. We have developed the functionality of uploading video content to a device from a computer through a browser, which reduced the user’s preparation time by several times.