A Simple Request: VLC.js

Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by db48x on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:20PM (#12897336)

Yea. The idea is to get the broad codec/container/etc support that VLC has, not to supplant native rendering of modern codecs. We haven't actually written any code yet, but if you hand VLC.js an H.264 file I'm pretty sure it'll just create a <video> tag and then pretend like it did all the work.

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Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by amelius on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:55AM (#12898942)

Shouldn't there always be a fallback option in case a (modern) codec is not supported (yet) natively?

The one thing I like most about VLC is that it always works (so far).

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Re:A Simple Request: VLC.js by db48x on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:21AM (#12920529)

That's what I've described. If the browser _can_ play it, then we just let the browser play it. Otherwise we use vlc to play it.

Our plan is up on the wiki too: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=VLC.js

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