Seneca College and Mozilla Enable Web Users to Enjoy Enhanced Videos
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Or Facebook; photos and/or subtitles.
Popcorn.js and its online web application Popcorn Maker are stated to be a part of a research project involving 15 Seneca students and faculty. The work was aided by grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Ontario Centres of Excellence and Mozilla.
For media makers Popcorn.js is stated as a tool that allows video, audio and other media to control elements of a webpage. Combining Mozilla’s library with a mixture of standard HTML and JavaScript, authors can let their media be the “conductor” of interactive and immersive experiences. For developers, the same tool can act as event framework for HTML5 media. Popcorn.js utilizes the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, normalizes them into an easy to learn API, and provides a plugin system for community contributed interactions.
CDOT is claimed to be instrumental in the success of Popcorn and Professor David Humphrey of Seneca's School of Information and Communications Technology and his team are stated to have made an extraordinary contribution to the HTML5 ecosystem that advances the capabilities of developers, media makers, and video creators on the web.
Source: TMC Net
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0
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Video on the web has always been a bit disappointing. After all, it’s pretty much just like television, only smaller. Unlike the rest of the web, video is just as much a passive experience in your browser as it is anywhere else.
Mozilla would like to change that. The company’s effort to bring a more interactive video experience to the web is known as Popcorn.js and it recently reached 1.0 status . If you’d like to play around with Popcorn, head on over to the Mozilla site and download a copy. Popcorn uses HTML5 video features and at the moment works best in Firefox and Chrome.
At its core, Popcorn is about making HTML5 web video into something more than just another television.
While it’s nice to have a way to embed videos without Flash, HTML5 video is capable of much more than just, well, video. It’s HTML, after all. That means it can tap into things like WebGL, or use JavaScript to augment video in real time — annotating videos with information like location, details about the people and topics in the video, subtitles, Twitter feeds, current weather information, links and much more.
Source: Webmonkey (blog)