Thanks for this, definately worth the download. One gripe with it though, if you choose the setting that the videos still play when in the task switcher view, they always revert to portrait, even if you choose only landscape mode from the application settings. I don't know if it's a "feature" of the task switcher, or just an overlook by the author.

Otherwise it's a great start and hopefully the author (or someone else) expands on this. Really nice. Konttori said in his blog that it would take like 200 lines of code in QML to make a better video player than the stock one, well can't say how many lines of code this is, but it's already better than the stock one, and it's quite cool how it retains the overall feel of the original player, just a bunch of added useful features and settings.