My First Open Source Project: simplevideo
August 15, 2014I created simplevideo because videojs and JW Player were much too bulky and cumbersome when I was working on both viddy’s website iterations and epic’s (now non-existent) website.
I wanted close access to the video element and controls so I ended up creating some code that was later shared between the projects.
Since I’m sure there are others out there who would want something similar, I decided to create a simple drop-in library for someone to quickly get set up with basic web video support using mp4s.
In the immediate future, I’m going to need to do a ton of testing. I plan on starting with mobile before moving onto Windows. In the far future, I’ll have to also test different versions of Flash… That’s something I’m not looking forward to.
In the time period after that, I’d like to add WebM, Ogg and potentially even HLS support. HLS will probably be incredibly tricky and only work in Flash, but it is an impressive and useful technology, so it’d be extremely valuable to have.
This also makes me realize I need to work on my technical writing. It makes me a bit uncomfortable that there’s something I actually care about out there for someone to openly critique. Hopefully some good comes from it and it helps someone somewhere!
Now off to add bower support…
