Comments on: JSONVid: Pure JavaScript Video Player

By: gabi78krk

gabi78krk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:02 +0000

Interesting page, and articles on it … Ruby developer

By: Maciek1984

Maciek1984 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:25:52 +0000

Interesting article. Gonna try

By: musicfreak

musicfreak — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:47:04 +0000

…so why not just use Flash?

By: tack

tack — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:04:46 +0000

Yeah, this seems like a re-implementation of motionJPEG. The data rate on that’s gotta be pretty high. Maybe with some diffing and keyframes you could take it down a peg… but then you’re writing a codec too.

I think it would be most useful for the video format and codec decisions in HTML 5 to be settled. Afterwards, I’m looking forward to programmatic access to playback and status.

By: pwnedd

pwnedd — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:55:31 +0000

How do the overall movies sizes tend to compare with SWF, DIVX, etc?

By: danielskinner

danielskinner — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:33:10 +0000

Nice. There’s a lot you can do in Javascript but it doesn’t mean you should :P

Good experiment though and yes, I will be purchasing a copy of Office Space soon!

By: p01

p01 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:57:54 +0000

Maybe fun to do, but I’ll stick to realtime effects generated as BMP images ( or Canvas ) as I’ve been for the last 4 years.

By: Schill

Schill — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:16:06 +0000

Base64-encoded data of course isn’t the most efficient format size-wise, maybe gzip would help – but either way, a pretty fun little demo. I think this (or someone else’s related experiment) was shown here several months back.

By: RichB

RichB — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:15:36 +0000

Don’t most browsers (modulo IE) support Motion JPEG?

By: posure

posure — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:25 +0000

Just a thought, why not use the CSS sprites technique and put it all in one image and change the background position? Might help with performance. Not as though this has many real world uses anyways, but a cool experiment.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:53:35 +0000

I won’t deny that it’s interesting but it’s hardly practical is it?

By: tastypopsicle

tastypopsicle — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:20 +0000

Is the video really missing sound? Video without sound is a bit of a let down. Until then Flash is the best option.

However, the iPhone does not support Flash. Can anyone with an iPhone confirm how well this example works? I’d be interested to know.