May 2010 Blog Posts
With all the hoopla surrounding which web browsers will support HTML5 video (and which codecs they will support), a buddy of mine mused about decoding video in JavaScript. I mean with a canvas tag, people have been able to produce some amazing things. And these browser JavaScript engines just keep getting faster and faster. So why don't we just go ahead and make a JavaScript video decoder? Yep, let's do it.