/html5-video-everywhere

Higher performance and stable video watching experience on the web

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMozilla Public License 2.0MPL-2.0

HTML5 Video EveryWhere

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Higher performance and stable video watching experience on the web.

Some streaming sites video players suck. This add-on will replace them with browser built-in video player for higher performance and more stable experience. Currently, it supports YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Break, Metacafe, Lego and even more sites are coming.

NOTE: This extension will change the page content of the supported video streaming sites. As a result, many extensions that depends on this content may not work as expected.

Install

Visit the extension website h5vew.tik.tn for latest version.

Build

You'll need:

  • Node.js, v8.x or higher
  • npm
  • make apt install make

Optionally, you may like:

  • nvm, which helps manage node versions
  • yarn a better package manager instead of npm

Before building the extension, you need to install gulp-cli and all dependencies: Change into the source and install gulp-cli and all dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere/
cd html5-video-everywhere
npm install -g gulp-cli  # or: yarn global add gulp-cli
npm install  # or: yarn
mkdir certs
cd certs
2>/dev/null openssl genrsa 2048 | openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -out chrome.pem

To build the addon for Firefox:

gulp ext:build:firefox

To build the addon for Google Chrome:

gulp ext:build:chrome

Documentation

You can also generate the documentation from the source code under docs/api folder with this command:

gulp doc:js

Credit

HTML5 Video EveryWhere contains codes from iaextractor project licensed under MPL 1.1.

Donate

If you find this project useful, you can give me a cup of coffee :)

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Self Promotion

This software is developed by Moez Bouhlel, co-founder of Tik.tn, a skilled software development and consulting agency. For a list of its services, visit its website tik.tn or contact it at contact@tik.tn.

Licence

This extension is free software; it is distributed under the MPL 2.0 License.

Copyright © 2014-2018, Moez Bouhlel (bmoez.j@gmail.com) & The Contributors