Comments on: Meet the Uberplayer. http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/ Capturing the thoughts of Paul Bakaus Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: EM http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-179 EM Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:26:29 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-179 [...] to Paul Bakaus blog post about Uberplayer, “Every function or visibility can be controlled through either the mouse or the keyboard. At [...] [...] to Paul Bakaus blog post about Uberplayer, “Every function or visibility can be controlled through either the mouse or the keyboard. At [...]

]]> By: Paul http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-178 Paul Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:09:29 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-178 @zzzombie neat, I'm going to give it a try! @zzzombie neat, I’m going to give it a try!

]]> By: zzzombie http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-177 zzzombie Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:56:29 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-177 Just a short message to say that YouTube now allows to integrate HD videos with the chromeless player. All you have to do is adding the &hd=1 parameter when calling the chromeless player (not the movie you load in it) e.g. : swfobject.embedSWF('http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=xxx&hd=1", movieDOMid, width, height, "8", null, vars, params, attributes); Just a short message to say that YouTube now allows to integrate HD videos with the chromeless player. All you have to do is adding the &hd=1 parameter when calling the chromeless player (not the movie you load in it) e.g. :

swfobject.embedSWF(‘http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=xxx&hd=1“, movieDOMid, width, height, “8″, null, vars, params, attributes);

]]> By: squarecat http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-176 squarecat Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:02:27 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-176 Oh man, how can I take a look at your jQ UI slider (scrubber) events?? I've been working on a JW Player-based (AKA Longtail Video) media player for a couple weeks and, despite my rudimentary JS skills, I managed to pull it together using jQuery and interacting with the Longtail JS API. One of my final issues is getting IE to recognize the actual scrub event that passes the jQ UI slider's position to player. And my slider performs horribly in Opera, so I am obviously doing a poor job (though I am quite proud of the slider concept, yours is the only other implementation I've seen.) Perhaps I was anxious to find out and overlooked it with Firebug, but it's likely I wouldn't recognize your method as I'm quite sure my have done it is quite laughable and convoluted. Oh man, how can I take a look at your jQ UI slider (scrubber) events??

I’ve been working on a JW Player-based (AKA Longtail Video) media player for a couple weeks and, despite my rudimentary JS skills, I managed to pull it together using jQuery and interacting with the Longtail JS API.

One of my final issues is getting IE to recognize the actual scrub event that passes the jQ UI slider’s position to player. And my slider performs horribly in Opera, so I am obviously doing a poor job (though I am quite proud of the slider concept, yours is the only other implementation I’ve seen.)

Perhaps I was anxious to find out and overlooked it with Firebug, but it’s likely I wouldn’t recognize your method as I’m quite sure my have done it is quite laughable and convoluted.

]]> By: Uberplayer: A Media Player Made With JavaScript | Web Developer Blog - Downloadtube.com http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-175 Uberplayer: A Media Player Made With JavaScript | Web Developer Blog - Downloadtube.com Tue, 19 May 2009 08:18:56 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-175 [...] to Paul Bakaus blog post about Uberplayer, “Every function or visibility can be controlled through either the mouse or the keyboard. At [...] [...] to Paul Bakaus blog post about Uberplayer, “Every function or visibility can be controlled through either the mouse or the keyboard. At [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-05-12 « boblog http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-174 links for 2009-05-12 « boblog Tue, 12 May 2009 10:20:17 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-174 [...] Meet the Uberplayer. With the transition from small movieclips to longer and bigger full length flicks, sites like Youtube still don’t really get the idea that the movie player has to give the user space, feel a bit like a theater for a overall greater experience. What we still receive is a bloated page with thousands of comments below, tags and whatever – things the user really doesn’t need or want to see while watching. This is why I started a new experiment – building a movieplayer for the web that doesn’t suck. (tags: youtube javascript webdesign) [...] [...] Meet the Uberplayer. With the transition from small movieclips to longer and bigger full length flicks, sites like Youtube still don’t really get the idea that the movie player has to give the user space, feel a bit like a theater for a overall greater experience. What we still receive is a bloated page with thousands of comments below, tags and whatever – things the user really doesn’t need or want to see while watching. This is why I started a new experiment – building a movieplayer for the web that doesn’t suck. (tags: youtube javascript webdesign) [...]

]]> By: Paul http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-173 Paul Tue, 12 May 2009 09:46:29 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-173 @Mike: It's largely not due to a performance reason within JavaScript, but somehow the video overlays are not handled very well by the browsers. However, things seem only behave slowly when the video is running - most often I click on the video, so the controls fade in, and then pick a new video. Then again, right now it's more a experiment - I'll try to optimize performance for an actual release! @Mike: It’s largely not due to a performance reason within JavaScript, but somehow the video overlays are not handled very well by the browsers. However, things seem only behave slowly when the video is running – most often I click on the video, so the controls fade in, and then pick a new video. Then again, right now it’s more a experiment – I’ll try to optimize performance for an actual release!

]]> By: jinjaDev » Blog Archive » js video player - Meet the Uberplayer http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-172 jinjaDev » Blog Archive » js video player - Meet the Uberplayer Tue, 12 May 2009 04:52:12 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-172 [...] Written purely in javaScript. It’s a thing of beauty! - Paul Bakaus [...] [...] Written purely in javaScript. It’s a thing of beauty! – Paul Bakaus [...]

]]> By: Mike http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-171 Mike Mon, 11 May 2009 16:14:26 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-171 This is great, but a tad overkill for a JavaScript implementation? I feel bad saying that because you did such an amazing job, and that should not be underestimated! But once you have a full window video going, the controls and thumbnail slider gets really clunky, and I'm using Chrome which has a pretty fast JS engine - I can only imagine how slow it would be in IE. For me, this sort of a thing is something better done in Flash. Yes you can do it in JS - you've obviously proven that much - but for a slick interface that has responsive controls, Flash (or Silverlight) would be a much better alternative. This is great, but a tad overkill for a JavaScript implementation? I feel bad saying that because you did such an amazing job, and that should not be underestimated! But once you have a full window video going, the controls and thumbnail slider gets really clunky, and I’m using Chrome which has a pretty fast JS engine – I can only imagine how slow it would be in IE. For me, this sort of a thing is something better done in Flash. Yes you can do it in JS – you’ve obviously proven that much – but for a slick interface that has responsive controls, Flash (or Silverlight) would be a much better alternative.

]]> By: The Ashes » Blog Archive » Uberplayer shows us what JavaScript media players can look like http://paulbakaus.com/2009/05/07/meet-the-uberplayer/#comment-170 The Ashes » Blog Archive » Uberplayer shows us what JavaScript media players can look like Sun, 10 May 2009 14:34:38 +0000 http://paulbakaus.com/?p=160#comment-170 [...] Media Players seem to be a hot topic right now. After the upgrades to Scott Schiller’s SoundManager, Paul Bakaus of the jQuery UI team now puts a firm stake into the ground with the uberplayer. [...] [...] Media Players seem to be a hot topic right now. After the upgrades to Scott Schiller’s SoundManager, Paul Bakaus of the jQuery UI team now puts a firm stake into the ground with the uberplayer. [...]

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