This really doesn't work so well with ClickToFlash installed. I couldn't watch any of the movies on the demo player by clicking on any of the play buttons. They seem to be (I assume) hiding the video behind a poster image and trying to start the video playing before they remove the poster. With ClickToFlash as I never see the flash player to click I just get stuck looking at the poster frame.
With Chromium on linux, and ffmpeg-nonfree, this is the only player that works _reasonably_ well. Seeking is still a little borked for me and unreliable.
Youtube' html5 player, jillion's player, etc. dont work reliably for me. I'm not sure whether that is chiefly due to difference of the encoded video itself.
(prefix edit: I am railing against their demo, not the technology itself. Worked fine on chrome/vista ultimate. Does anyone know if it works for icecast streaming audio?)
Really, really don't like the interaction design of the thumbnail chooser. It's quite annoying to use. Other than that, neat toy I suppose...
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: if you roll your own scrollbars, make sure they work like the scrollbars everywhere else on every operating system you plan on supporting. E.g., if a container is scrollable, it should listen to the mousewheel. If you can't get your special custom scrollbars to support the mousewheel, DON'T BUILD THEM.
The auto-scrolling-when-highlighting-the-top-or-bottom-thumbnail is also quite annoying. Think about this:
1. I see the bottom thumbnail, want to click on it
2. Thing moves automatically. Whoa.
3. All of a sudden, the thing I wanted to click on is no longer under my mouse cursor. Now I have to think and move my cursor yet again
4. Rollover actions like this do not work on touch mobile devices (thank god)
This looks like an interesting project with alot of potential, but with Chrome on OSX the video for Theora wouldn't play past the opening title, the mp4 was jerky and sucked up most of the available CPU and the others didn't work at all.
For this to be useful for websites to embed they need to make the player easily theme able, like jwplayer for flash (I didn't look at the docs, so this may already be in place).
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 27.2 ms ] threadAlso the name, OSM, is very similar to Adobes "open" player framework, OSMF, http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/. That could get confusing.
Other than that nice idea.
Youtube' html5 player, jillion's player, etc. dont work reliably for me. I'm not sure whether that is chiefly due to difference of the encoded video itself.
Really, really don't like the interaction design of the thumbnail chooser. It's quite annoying to use. Other than that, neat toy I suppose...
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: if you roll your own scrollbars, make sure they work like the scrollbars everywhere else on every operating system you plan on supporting. E.g., if a container is scrollable, it should listen to the mousewheel. If you can't get your special custom scrollbars to support the mousewheel, DON'T BUILD THEM.
The auto-scrolling-when-highlighting-the-top-or-bottom-thumbnail is also quite annoying. Think about this:
1. I see the bottom thumbnail, want to click on it
2. Thing moves automatically. Whoa.
3. All of a sudden, the thing I wanted to click on is no longer under my mouse cursor. Now I have to think and move my cursor yet again
4. Rollover actions like this do not work on touch mobile devices (thank god)
For this to be useful for websites to embed they need to make the player easily theme able, like jwplayer for flash (I didn't look at the docs, so this may already be in place).
Good luck to them, they have a nice start!