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Is that really true? Netflix uses html5 video to stream. The use case for a pure js player must be fairly small edit: my bad, I thought the project in the OP d
by leshow 8y ago
Is that really true? Netflix uses html5 video to stream. The use case for a pure js player must be fairly small
edit: my bad, I thought the project in the OP didn't use html5 video at all, I see how that it is a wrapper around it.
- Ambroos 8y agoIt's impossible to play DRM video without heavy JS (except in Safari). Netflix probably uses a similar library to Shaka for their DASH streams. HTML5 video is only really simple if you want to just play MP4's with H264 encodings. For everything else you're going to want a wrapper to deal with compatibility checks, smoothing out cross-browser bugs, deal with ads, set up DRM, ...