/frame-player

A video player without video files, just JSON. Based on 'images frames' thought to mobile devices!

Primary LanguageJavaScript

#Frame Player

A video player without video files, just JSON. Based on "images frames" thought to mobile devices!

#The Problem The problem of today's HTML5 video is that it can't be played in-line on an HTML page on mobile devices. The way the handheld devices handle it is they open the video in a native player which takes over the page itself, making it impossible to implement any interaction while the video is playing. Also, you can't play two videos at the same time.

#The Solution Create a player instead of playing video files, show a sequence of images at a certain rate.

#Usage

  • Insert this HTML code on any part of your page and set the data-src attribute for your JSON video file
	<div id="my-player" class="frameplayer" data-vidsrc="videos/video.json"></div>
  • Put the script and the style on your page
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="src/css/frameplayer.css">
	<script src="src/js/frameplayer.js"></script>
  • Set the options
var options = ({
    'rate': 30,
    'controls': false,
    'autoplay': true,
    'width': '640px',
    'height': '390px',
    // 'radius': '50%'
});
  • Init the player
var player = new FramePlayer('my-player', options);
	player.play();
  • You also can use bower to install frame-player
bower install frame-player

#Generating the JSON Video File

  • Use ffmpeg to generate the frames from a video file:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -an -f image2 "%d.jpg"
  • Convert all frames on a single JSON file

    • Option 1: Node.js

       cd converter
       node app.js frameStart frameEnd folder/to/imgs/ json/video.json
    • Option 2: PHP

       php to_data_uri.php frameStart frameEnd folder/to/imgs/ json/video.json

Author

Vagner Santana | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- Vagner Santana
@vagnervjs|

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