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cpillsbury

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    Comment #47524200

    Oh I definitely misunderstood! VJS is designed to have a "why not both?" approach for all of these things. Though, to your point, we will never build a core player or set of core f…

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    Comment #47523975

    Core contributor here! FYI these kinds of cases are definitely on my mind. One of the nice things about our overarching architecture is we (or someone else, even you!) can add/exte…

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    Comment #47523756

    Hey, core contributor here! If a plain video element plus hls.js is all you need to accomplish your goals, we wouldn't ever try to convince you otherwise. In fact, our "HlsVideo" m…

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    Comment #47517202

    Core VJS contributor here and builder of players and playback engines for too long (aka before HLS and MPEG-DASH were a thing). As others mentioned, the support matrix for HLS is v…

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    Comment #47516955

    Hey there, core contributor here! Starting with the last one first, since that's the easiest - VJSv10 is basically a completely new player, so no backwards compatibility planned (t…

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    Comment #47516791

    Hey there, core contributor here! This came up during our beta effort. We very likely will be having an opt-in, non-native subtitles rendering implementation. I know at least a few…

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    Comment #47512134

    One other thing to note: because the features are "composed", we at least have a lot of flexibility here that makes me feel pretty good about the fundamentals and not "coding ourse…

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    Comment #47512095

    Hey VJS core contributor here. We definitely feel that concern and we also don't yet have a silver bullet formalized. I suspect we'll need some kind of alternate implementations or…