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