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Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ffmpeg as WebAssembly)

23 points by dominictyler 6y ago

ognarb 6y ago
This has nothing to do with VLC, just a clickbait.
- dominictyler 6y ago
  I specifically worded the title "a VLC Media Player" to mean: "I'm trying to build the equivalent of VLC Media Player for the web", because right now there is none. This is the closest, best attempt out there.
  - detaro 6y ago
    I'd suggest either dropping the "VLC" or write "VLC-style" or "VLC-like" to make it clear.
    - dominictyler 6y ago
      ok. done.
  - Uehreka 6y ago
    I’d be careful making claims about this ending up with more features than VLC. There’s the “coding lots of features is hard” part for sure, but also I’m not sure all of VLC’s stream creation/consumption stuff can be done in the browser since you won’t have direct access to the network stack. And there might be other things I don’t know about that can’t be done in the browser.
lights0123 6y ago
This could use feature detection or a try/catch or around creating a SharedArrayBuffer, as browsers that don't support it will be stuck on loading with no error message. This is seen in Firefox because even though FF supports SAB, this website doesn't send the required headers to tell FF to enable Spectre mitigations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer#Security_requirements https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
dewey 6y ago
Somehow this project sounds like some SEO bait, especially with all the redundant copy-paste instructions on the page that are just SEO keywords. Who is behind this project? All commits are just anonymous as "bestmediaplayer". If it's supposed to be some VLC like project it doesn't really look like it. - bestmediaplayer.org - https://fileconverter.digital https://fileconverter.digital - https://github.com/bestmediaplayer/mediaplayer https://github.com/bestmediaplayer/mediaplayer Edit: Things like: https://twitter.com/FreeConvertFile/status/1329465492332044288 https://twitter.com/FreeConvertFile/status/13294654923320442... don't really inspire a lot of confidence in the project and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146306 combined with the privacy policy of the site sounds more like an ad-based SEO site.
- dominictyler 6y ago
  Wait. This isn't just a throwaway project "just to get SEO" This is a project I was genuinely proud of and I honestly thought it could overtake VLC one day. Like when I wrapped it up for release, I seriously thought I might have just changed the world with this. As for social proof: "Wow, that is really really impressive" ~https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54 https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54
  - dominictyler 6y ago
    Like I was test-firing each file at the end of the project, then when it came to the SWF file, that actually test-fired successfully and ran. It blew my mind, I didn't expect that to happen.
- deleted 6y ago
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- detaro 6y ago
  And Showdead shows previous submission as "Show HN" by a banned account... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bestmediaplayer.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bestmediaplayer.org
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superasn 6y ago
Why this is flagged? Looks like a very cool and useful project. edit: nevermind read the comments

23 points by dominictyler 6y ago

ognarb 6y ago

This has nothing to do with VLC, just a clickbait.

dominictyler 6y ago
I specifically worded the title "a VLC Media Player" to mean: "I'm trying to build the equivalent of VLC Media Player for the web", because right now there is none. This is the closest, best attempt out there.
- detaro 6y ago
  I'd suggest either dropping the "VLC" or write "VLC-style" or "VLC-like" to make it clear.
  - dominictyler 6y ago
    ok. done.
- Uehreka 6y ago
  I’d be careful making claims about this ending up with more features than VLC. There’s the “coding lots of features is hard” part for sure, but also I’m not sure all of VLC’s stream creation/consumption stuff can be done in the browser since you won’t have direct access to the network stack. And there might be other things I don’t know about that can’t be done in the browser.

lights0123 6y ago

This could use feature detection or a try/catch or around creating a SharedArrayBuffer, as browsers that don't support it will be stuck on loading with no error message. This is seen in Firefox because even though FF supports SAB, this website doesn't send the required headers to tell FF to enable Spectre mitigations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer#Security_requirements https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

dewey 6y ago

Somehow this project sounds like some SEO bait, especially with all the redundant copy-paste instructions on the page that are just SEO keywords. Who is behind this project? All commits are just anonymous as "bestmediaplayer". If it's supposed to be some VLC like project it doesn't really look like it. - bestmediaplayer.org - https://fileconverter.digital https://fileconverter.digital - https://github.com/bestmediaplayer/mediaplayer https://github.com/bestmediaplayer/mediaplayer Edit: Things like: https://twitter.com/FreeConvertFile/status/1329465492332044288 https://twitter.com/FreeConvertFile/status/13294654923320442... don't really inspire a lot of confidence in the project and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146306 combined with the privacy policy of the site sounds more like an ad-based SEO site.

dominictyler 6y ago
Wait. This isn't just a throwaway project "just to get SEO" This is a project I was genuinely proud of and I honestly thought it could overtake VLC one day. Like when I wrapped it up for release, I seriously thought I might have just changed the world with this. As for social proof: "Wow, that is really really impressive" ~https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54 https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasmweekly/issues/54
- dominictyler 6y ago
  Like I was test-firing each file at the end of the project, then when it came to the SWF file, that actually test-fired successfully and ran. It blew my mind, I didn't expect that to happen.
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detaro 6y ago
And Showdead shows previous submission as "Show HN" by a banned account... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bestmediaplayer.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bestmediaplayer.org
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superasn 6y ago

Why this is flagged? Looks like a very cool and useful project. edit: nevermind read the comments