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A JavaScript H.264 decoder.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2011-10-28 · latest 2018-01-30

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  1. …ffmpeg itself but rather companies shipping it once they get big enough / have money. For example: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway/issues/124 HEVC is currently literally impossible to license. One of the pools hasn't decided on…
    comment by TD-Linux · 2018-01-30 · in MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution
  2. …nowhere close to h264. If you're interested in this sorta thing, try taking a look at Broadway JS: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway Here's a simple demo page they have setup: http://mbebenita.github.io/Broadway/foxDemo.html Its…
    comment by chadnickbok · 2017-02-02 · in JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999
  3. Broadway.js is Android's H.264 decoder compiled with Emscripten to JavaScript: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway http://mbebenita.github.io/Broadway/foxDemo.html
    comment by cpeterso · 2016-11-03 · in Flv.js – An HTML5 Flash Video Player
  4. …fast and runs at native speeds on phones https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg but MPEG4/H.264 is not https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
    comment by rasz_pl · 2014-06-11 · in Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript
  5. btw, here's the source code for Broadway.js, the JavaScript H.264 decoder: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
    comment by cpeterso · 2013-04-05 · in Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
  6. …Broadway: it’s an Emscripten port of Android’s H264 software decoder that writes to a WebGL canvas. https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
    comment by robin_reala · 2013-04-03 · in Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
  7. …Emscripten - but this was a while ago, I'd be curious to see how fast it runs now with Asm.js: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
    comment by jeresig · 2013-04-03 · in Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
  8. …don't forget you can decode several audio codecs: http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ and video codecs: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway + http://people.xiph.org/~bens/route9/route9.html
    comment by tbassetto · 2012-06-25 · in Things you didn't know JavaScript could do
  9. For decoding the video itself, https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway is as far as anyone's gotten so far, but it's slow (as one would expect). Still, I'd love to see something able to extract the audio from container formats.
    comment by btown · 2012-06-16 · in FLAC.js, Aurora, and the Future of Web Audio
  10. The native JS h264 decoder was pretty awesome. https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
    comment by javanix · 2011-12-21 · in What was the most Badass JavaScript demo of 2011?
  11. They have a hand-coded javascript version in progress too: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway/tree/master/Play
    comment by ZeroGravitas · 2011-10-28 · in A JavaScript H.264 decoder
  12. …h264 decoder" gives as the top result this github project (with commits in the last hour or so): https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway Sounds like the <whatever>monkey type inference engine is giving some pretty good results.
    comment by surrealize · 2011-10-28 · in A H264 decoder, written in JavaScript, running at 30fps in the browser