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'''JSVLC''' is a shot in the dark attempt to port the open-source media player VLC to Javascript.  
'''JSVLC''' is a shot in the dark attempt to port the open-source media player VLC to Javascript.
 
[[VLC.js]] is a more detailed article about this project.


The motivation for this is not unlike the motivations for creating the Javascript MESS project: increased portable access to a variety of media - in this case, audio and video, including older formats, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and other files that reside on locations like the Internet Archive, retuning all of these large files into streamable media.
The motivation for this is not unlike the motivations for creating the Javascript MESS project: increased portable access to a variety of media - in this case, audio and video, including older formats, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and other files that reside on locations like the Internet Archive, retuning all of these large files into streamable media.
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* Building with Emscripten: [https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Building-Projects]
* Building with Emscripten: [https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Building-Projects]


Initial horrified attempts to overview this project are happening at #jsvlc on EFnet.
Initial horrified attempts to overview this project are happening at #vlcjs on EFnet.


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Latest revision as of 03:00, 15 July 2019

JSVLC is a shot in the dark attempt to port the open-source media player VLC to Javascript.

VLC.js is a more detailed article about this project.

The motivation for this is not unlike the motivations for creating the Javascript MESS project: increased portable access to a variety of media - in this case, audio and video, including older formats, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and other files that reside on locations like the Internet Archive, retuning all of these large files into streamable media.

It'll work, or it won't.

  • Downloading the VLC Source Code: [1]
  • Building with Emscripten: [2]

Initial horrified attempts to overview this project are happening at #vlcjs on EFnet.