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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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