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Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Re: Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Post by jswinghammer »

randall wrote: post #10

Anyone who's interested in popcorn might want to give my little tech demo a spin. Works with YouTube right now, but enables syncing of website slides to a YouTube video. For now, this is just a tech demo (creation isn't done yet) but would love any feedback you've got about the frontend, or if you see any use, etc. Going to launch it in a few weeks, which is when I'll really start looking for feedback on both the cre…

If you sync it with PowerPoint slides then you might have something. Could be a sales video with a slide deck moving along while the dude talks. Might be cool. A few companies do something similar but not quite that.

Re: Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Post by randall »

jswinghammer wrote: post #21
randall wrote: post #10

Anyone who's interested in popcorn might want to give my little tech demo a spin. Works with YouTube right now, but enables syncing of website slides to a YouTube video. For now, this is just a tech demo (creation isn't done yet) but would love any feedback you've got about the frontend, or if you see any use, etc. Going to launch it in a few weeks, which is when I'll really start looking for feedback on both the cre…

If you sync it with PowerPoint slides then you might have something. Could be a sales video with a slide deck moving along while the dude talks. Might be cool. A few companies do something similar but not quite that.

Yeah, the plan is to do SlideShare and PDF viewers (scribd, crocodoc) soon enough, before launch.

Re: Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Post by chopsueyar »

andrewacove wrote: post #17
bkrausz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We stream video: you can use a Flash media server (costs a lot of money), Wowza media server (costs less money), or red5 (open source) to stream. For images you can actually extract a bitmap from a frame of the video, which I imagine you can pass to JS and reassemble in canvas.

Is there any good documentation for setting up red5? My first attempt was a nightmare.

You can use a developer's version of Wowza (the big limit is iPhone streaming is crippled).

A single license is like $1000, but you can instead pay by month ($60, IIRC).

Wowza also has a deal with Amazon, so you can run Wowza on EC2 and only pay by the hour (Wowza licensing included).

Re: Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Post by chopsueyar »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #9
sylvinus wrote: post #7

This seems much inferior to http://mediaelementjs.com

At all no - mediaelementjs offers excellent skinning, but it's the events and triggers that make popcornjs far more powerful. This: http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/semanticremix/ was posted on HN not that long ago and is an excellent example of the power of popcornjs.

This is the xml file used for that Donald Duck mashup. Reading through the timeline tag really made more sense to me than the actual demo (in terms of explanation).

http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/semanticremix/data.xml

Re: Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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Post by chopsueyar »

foenix wrote: post #26

This is fabulous. I might even say that this medium is going to inspire new genres of digital art. Bravo.

I don't know about inspiring new genres, unless the end user-experience of this is something that could never be created in Flash (a streaming VOD that triggers javascript at specific video frames/times to update portions of the DOM).

I would like to see this used in an interactive, bi-directional manner. That would be some interesting stuff.

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