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> The drawback was that the source data needed to be a web friendly seekable format; you couldn't play an arbitrary video file. Maybe I should revive the VLC w
by jbk 12y ago
> The drawback was that the source data needed to be a web friendly seekable format; you couldn't play an arbitrary video file.
Maybe I should revive the VLC web plugin and the torrent input plugin :)
- 0x4139 12y agoi was thinking about using the vlc web plugin :) for avi/vmw
- jbk 12y agoPlease report bugs :)
- nimbusvid 12y agoPlugins aren't a great solution, people don't want to install them.
- jbk 12y agoI agree very much, which is why I did not push too much the VLC web plugin. Yet I don't know how to solve this problem, in any another way. On the other hand, Popcorntime and other soft are getting installed by users, so maybe if plugins are easy to install, maybe they could work... (?)
- will_hughes 12y agoPopcorntime doesn't open up my browser to security holes for every website I visit. Every plugin you install increases the surface area for attacks.
- jbk 12y agoOf course. But plugins are now in separated processes and plugins shouldn't autoplay (a contrario from flash).
- nimbusvid 12y agoThe "right" way to solve it is for everyone to use seekable MP4 (or seekable WebM), especially since things like Chromecast don't natively support anything else. That's hard to do but possible if you provide a highly desirable service (people will start to complain for torrents in unsupported formats).
- m0dest 12y agoWebM and mkv are the same container format.