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Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by vespakoen on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:26PM (#12896570)
You probably have already seen this, but I just found this ffmpeg library compiled with emscripten and thought it was pretty cool

http://bgrins.github.io/videoconverter.js/demo

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Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by simcop2387 on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:54PM (#12896705)
Yea, stuff like that makes me think that while doing all codecs will be hard, a large useful subset will be not that difficult to do.
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Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by acqq on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:06AM (#12898978)
I've just tried webm to mp4, the native is at least 10 times faster.

It seems just very low-res stuff will be interactively playable if the speed difference remains. Maybe it's enough for the very old stuff, however.

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