Posted by nikse.dk 2012-02-04

posted by Bill at 12-04-02 9:24 PM

I like the idea, but I couldn't get a local or web based mp4 to work.


Sample file: http://billcreswell.com/code/media/BFC-PTA-Review.mp4

posted by nikse.dk at 12-05-02 12:05 AM

Hi Bill,

Yes, the video format stuff is tricky - it seems that IE/Safari is backing mp4 video files and firefox/chrome/opera is backing the webm video format - what a mess ;)

Here's a nice article about video codecs in html 5

Your mp4 file plays in IE9.

posted by Beluga at 12-10-02 3:21 PM

would this help for H.264 video:
Broadway.js

posted by George at 12-13-02 12:55 PM

Great idea (online version). I don´t know if it will be a chance to implement the online version in other servers. Are you going to permit this?

posted by Peter Bjarkov at 12-14-02 5:50 AM

I tried to load a pac file.
Nothing happened.

posted by Ahmad at 12-15-02 6:20 AM

It will be very beautiful, but it will take your time 'away' from your 'current working' application! HTML-5 is definitely worth it, but the browsers are all doing different things, as you've noticed by stating, "what a mess".

posted by nikse.dk at 12-16-02 8:20 PM

I've made the online SE version to see how much I could do in HTML5 - and the C# version will always have many advantages regarding video player and time line, but the online version has more translation possibilities.
I don't know if anyone would like to use the web version...

@George: I don't know if I'll make a package - it's mostly javascript so it should be easy to get ;)

@Peter: Hi :)
I was lazy, so I only add subtitle format that do no require additional information when loading, like code page etc.

@Ahmad: Yes, the video codec part of HML5 is surely a mess, but the rest is not so bad, and in a year it will be even better.
Don't worry - the normal SE is still my top-priority-spare-time-project :)

posted by ikrshnan at 12-17-02 11:44 AM

I'm shocked Nik. This is great. Really appreciate this. :) :)

posted by pupu at 12-18-02 11:56 PM

Finally someone starts what I've been too lazy to do for years!

Check out mediaelement.js, it's a wrapper for HTML5 video that provides Flash shims for the HTML5 video scripting API. That should make it possible to use more video file formats across browsers.

Oh, the play symbol is too small, ►(U+25BA) would look better. It's strange that Unicode has a DVD symbol and a pile of poo, but no standard media controls.

posted by nikse.dk at 12-28-02 8:32 PM

Thx, ►(U+25BA) added, I might use mediaelement.js or video.js later. Yes, indeed strange about the missing Unicode media control glyphs!

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