Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ffmpeg as WebAssembly)

Re:Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ff... by dewey on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:19PM (#25153886)

Somehow this project sounds like some SEO bait, especially with all the redundant copy-paste instructions on the page that are just SEO keywords. Who is behind this project? All commits are just anonymous as "bestmediaplayer". If it's supposed to be some VLC like project it doesn't really look like it.

- bestmediaplayer.org

- https://fileconverter.digital

- https://github.com/bestmediaplayer/mediaplayer

Edit: Things like: https://twitter.com/FreeConvertFile/status/13294654923320442... don't really inspire a lot of confidence in the project and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146306 combined with the privacy policy of the site sounds more like an ad-based SEO site.

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Re:Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ff... by dominictyler on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:43PM (#25154120)

Like I thought of doing this project 1 month ago. I looked at the attempt out there to compile VLC to JS. I spent a few days and actually got it working, but it resulted in this monster 150 MB file. That's just not feasible.

I was looking at different approaches to a in-browser Media Player for a while. It was only about a week ago that I found SourceBuffer.appendBuffer, in conjuction with FFMPEG -f segment that I thought there was something possible.

Then I finally cracked -segment_format_options which was the missing piece. I spent a whole day on that googling around, opening Upwork contracts trying to solve that problem. Could've been 1.5-2 days, I don't remember.

Point is, it wasn't just a 1-2 hackathon. There were serious technical problems that I solved.

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Re:Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ff... by detaro on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:22PM (#25153904)

And Showdead shows previous submission as "Show HN" by a banned account... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bestmediaplayer.org

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Re:Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ff... by dominictyler on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:35PM (#25154030)

Wait. This isn't just a throwaway project "just to get SEO"

This is a project I was genuinely proud of and I honestly thought it could overtake VLC one day. Like when I wrapped it up for release, I seriously thought I might have just changed the world with this.

As for social proof: "Wow, that is really really impressive" ~https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54

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Re:Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ff... by dominictyler on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:36PM (#25154040)

Like I was test-firing each file at the end of the project, then when it came to the SWF file, that actually test-fired successfully and ran. It blew my mind, I didn't expect that to happen.

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