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Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
player.style#web components#video player#media chrome#video.js#winamp theme
How HN took it
10 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Design: 3 for, 3 againstIdea: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, impressive themes and design
From 3 comments
Player.style is excellent! In my last startup I started to build my own video.js theme, and after a few hours realized it probably wasn't worth my time and stuck with the…
dnsbty on HNNicely done. I wish Peacock had used one of these during the Olympics / Paralympics, specifically one that has a visible chapter scrubber like these do. Watching a 6 hour stream…
andrewchilds on HNBeautiful work here and thank you for making it FOSS. Congrats on shipping!
nimzoLarsen on HN
Web Components praised as reusable and future-proof
From 2 comments
Very nice! Its refreshing to see this kind of work being done. Right now all the framework authors are going berserk about web-components and spewing "th3y suCk" and…
phplovesong on HNWeb components are great. You all are doing awesome things with them at Mux!
spankalee on HN
Objections
Page is heavy and scrolls slowly on older hardware
From 1 comment
An old version of Winamp will load very quickly and run very well on modest hardware. This webpage does not scroll smoothly on a 2019 Mac Book Pro and there's a long delay in…
henning on HN
Keyboard focus and arrow key controls behave oddly
From 1 comment
There's some weirdness around focus going on here, hopefully this comes across as constructive criticism. All of them have the same problem: When you click on the video itself,…
dpedu on HN
Color choice can produce unreadable contrast
From 1 comment
Site looks great. I checked audio, HTML, and selected a dark primary color (purple) and the first thing I see is unusable in terms of color contrast. I would expect a tool that…
pglevy on HN
Requests
Add subtitle track support to the wizard
From 1 comment
I love it. Just one kindness: could you add subtitle tracks to the wizard? They are quite hard to add for now, since there is no documentation and media-chrome seems to use a…
redhippo on HN
Add a themes for foobar2000
From 1 comment
Any chance you can do foobar2000?
solomonb on HN
Controls that do not cover the video
From 1 comment
It would be nice to add some styles where controls don't cover the video (I don't understand why at one point everyone decided that video controls have to cover actual video).…
troupo on HN
Questions
Whether Web Components can replace frameworks like React and Vue
From 1 comment
What's left for Web Components to get in order to completely get rid of frameworks like VueJS and React? By getting rid of I mean for 99% of use cases. It may also mean a light…
sgt on HN
Web Components versus iframes for embedding
From 1 comment
Thanks for the link and the work. I wonder what would be the other uses of web components. Practical case : at work we want to distribute a subsidies simulator. It's currently an…
maelito on HN
Alternatives named
Webamp
From 1 comment
If you only care about music (not videos) then you might also have a look at https://webamp.org/ You don't even need to "compile" or do anything fancy to "integrate" it : just…
karteum on HN
Plyr
From 1 comment
You can adapt your code to work with YouTube embeds. Set the youtube embed src to the following: controls=0 – Removes the player controls (like play, pause, volume).…
01jonny01 on HN
React Player
From 1 comment
The Mux marketing strategy is brilliant. Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package. Another…
wallawe on HN