Is there any open source, Flash- or Javascript-based media player which can play all video formats (like youtube) and pdf slide presentation (like scribd)? Is there any media player that can do both? Thanks in advance.
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Checkout VLC. It supports a host of video/audio formats and has browser plugins. Not sure if it can open PDF files, though!
Vijay Mathew
2009-08-13 05:23:13
This one is not Flash based. It installs a separate plugin for the browser.
Marcin
2009-08-13 05:29:27
I know it is not flash based and I don't think there are flash based, open source media players that can play "all video formats". VLC is a nice, better alternative, for his particular requirement.
Vijay Mathew
2009-08-13 06:18:19
+1
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You can relatively easily find movie players (i.e. flowplayer). But they don't play arbitrary video formats, but usually flv, to which you will have to convert your movies with some tool like ffmpeg or mencoder.
Pdf is a totally different story. Scribd behind the scenes uses pdf to jpeg (or some other image format) converter and then has just image viewer in flash. You can try to use imagemagick to convert your pdf to images and then use any of existing image viwer. Say simpleviewer.
So far there is no one-size-fits-all player for those formats.
Marcin
2009-08-13 05:28:16