Full-bleed background videos?

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Full-bleed background videos?

I'm wondering if anyone has thought about or come across any realistic methods for providing a full bleed background VIDEO to a site, without resulting in the site being dead slow.

Ideally I don't want to have to use Flash. And By full bleed I mean from edge to edge of the screen, like a desktop wallpaper.

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If you dont want flash then try using silverlight.

Shoban 2009-08-04 12:42:47

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Since the rendering of the video (in whatever way it would work) is always done on the client, the statement "without resulting in the site being dead slow" is not really useful.

Could my current T60 Thinkpad (dualcore) render the video? I'd say yes. Could my girlfriend's Atom-based netbook do the same? I don't think so.

You've got to consider your minimum requirements for the client.

Sardaukar 2009-08-04 12:54:23

I disagree that it's not really useful. Surely some methods of delivering video are more intensive than others? (e.g. Flash vs JS vs Silverlight)

jsims281 2009-08-04 13:37:44

It usually depends on the codec used. But you're not listening to my argument. Say Silverlight is the fastest of the three methods you mention - if it still doesn't work on the Atom-based netbook I mentioned, it doesn't meet your requirement of "without the site being dead slow".You have to set a minimum requirement for your clients and work from there.

Sardaukar 2009-08-04 15:03:49

Nono, I do see what you mean. I agree it a fairly vague way of saying it and maybe instead of saying "Without being slow", I should have said "With the best possible performance"...but you surely still understood what I meant?

jsims281 2009-08-04 19:34:08

I hear and I understand what you mean. I hope you find an acceptable answer, although I would not go for animated gifs ;^)

Sardaukar 2009-08-05 06:32:54

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Wait for HTML 5?

Kurt W. Leucht 2009-08-04 13:47:04

Haha I like that answer.

jsims281 2009-08-04 14:10:55

+1 A:

Animated GIFs did the job since the '90s. It's a bit blocky, but if it's blurred enough no one will notice :)

MaxVT 2009-08-04 15:57:00

I can't believe this got accepted as a correct answer. You cannot do full screen VIDEO with animated gifs. Did someone not get the joke?

Sardaukar 2009-08-05 06:31:34

http://aislian.org/tile.html is an example of this.Well, I've seen it actually done in a few places - mostly resembling MySpace pages, probably. You can do full screen, but it will have to be quite low resolution. This is what animation was like before Flash and H.264 :)

MaxVT 2009-08-12 15:31:03

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