Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

http://popcornjs.org/

by creativityhurts • 15 years ago

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reustle• 15 years ago

I remember talking about this at Mozilla Drumbeat NYC last year. It's a very cool project, indeed.

aridiculous• 15 years ago

I'm really excited for the coming collision of motion graphics, video, and web.

Things like Popcorn.js, CSS3, OpenGL, and AJAX are going to bring dynamic, user-controlled motion graphics into the browser without actionscript. Huzzah!

franze• 15 years ago

well that, and beyond i.e.: http://www.barbafan.de/html5video?video=tron

fleitz2• 15 years ago

This is great. Does anyone know if it's possible to record video using HTML5? I'm looking for a drop in component that will let a person easily record a video from their webcam and am trying to avoid flash.

mikaelgramont• 15 years ago

Does not exist yet. There's no final spec for this, and Opera just started experimenting with it. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-...

bkrausz3• 15 years ago

We had to look into this: the only way to do it in a cross-browser/OS way is to use Flash. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to write a bare-bones Flash app that just creates JS hooks for all webcam functions (though the permission dialog and any video preview still needs to be in the Flash window).

fleitz2• 15 years ago

Awesome, I'll have to look into that, are you grabbing video or just images?

chopsueyar4• 15 years ago

Have you been able to use Wowza with HTML5 using a livestream, not VOD?

sylvinus• 15 years ago

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

elliottcarlson• 15 years ago

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.

chopsueyar4• 15 years ago

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

rwaldron3• 15 years ago

They can be friends and work together, bro!

randall3• 15 years ago

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 creation and consumption side. (post to HN, etc)

http://www.vidpresso.tv/presentations/view/5

[Watch more than 10 seconds, or click around on the timecodes in the rundown to get an idea of what I've built.]

lurchpop2• 15 years ago

crazy. i did something similar with a shopping cart type thing with youtube vids. http://haul.twitik.com/. Youtube's player API totally rules, right?

jswinghammer• 15 years ago

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.

randall3• 15 years ago

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

lux2• 15 years ago

Looks neat! Gonna check it out this weekend.

Plug: I have a similar project for interactive video with HTML5 I just put online the other day:

http://www.cacophonyjs.com/

randall3• 15 years ago

Reminds me of that crazy Arcade Fire video.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

lux2• 15 years ago

Definitely inspired by it :)

I'm working with a friend to make an interactive music video with it, story-based with some mouse-reacting visual elements and some minor social interaction too.

doctororange• 15 years ago

That's wonderful! The syntax is beautifully simple too.

rwaldron3• 15 years ago

:D Glad you like it!

taitems• 15 years ago

Wow, thanks for using the 'Aristo' jQuery UI theme for the Butter creation tool :)

lurchpop2• 15 years ago

that's funny. i was just using that and thinking how good the dialog windows looked :D

rwaldron3• 15 years ago

Thanks for making the Aristo theme for jQuery UI (and you're welcome) :)

argoneus2• 15 years ago

Does anyone know what the song/melody playing in the background of the video is from?

tomstuart• 15 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_(instrumental)

argoneus2• 15 years ago

Thanks, and it's very apropos they would choose that song. The melody has been stuck in my head for years, probably from some old school 8-bit video game, so it's great to match the song with the melody.

foenix• 15 years ago

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

Bravo.

chopsueyar4• 15 years ago

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.

Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

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