dominictyler

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.

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.

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

ok. done.

I specifically worded the title "a VLC Media Player" to mean: "I'm trying to build the equivalent of VLC Media Player for the web", because right now there is none. This is the closest, best attempt out there.

I'll go first: For me, my needs aren't that much, I would be happy with $2000/month.