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In 2010, a weekend experiment with HTML5 video became the web’s most-used open source player.
15 years later, Video.js’s creator came back to rebuild it.
This is the story of Video.js. Watch the full trailer now on CultRepo: youtube.com/watch?v=gCZEKiP3…
Documentary goes live on 5 November at 7:30pm CET.
Steve Jobs’ 2010 announcement that the iPhone would not support Adobe Flash marked the beginning of the end of Flash.
HTML5 video was the alternative, but browsers implemented it inconsistently, and there were few tools for building on it.
That same year, @videojs was released as an open-source HTML5 player that worked the same way across browsers and fell back to Flash where it had to. It became one of the most widely used video players on the web.
Our documentary tells how it got there, how it nearly fell apart, and how it was rebuilt.
Trailer out Thursday, 29 October.
Full film on 5 November.
Catch it here: youtube.com/@cultrepo
Catch 'The Story Behind Gitleaks: How a Hobby Project Became a Security Staple' on CultRepo tonight at 7pm GMT.
youtube.com/watch?v=aQhjhGul…
Any guesses which city we shot this in?
Thanks to @AikidoSecurity @lookatcomputer
On 29 April 2010, Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash", an open letter giving six reasons iPhones and iPads would not run Adobe's plugin. It changed how the web plays video.
Jobs argued that flash was proprietary, crashed Macs, had a poor security record, drained batteries, relied on mouse hovers touchscreens lack, and put a third-party layer between Apple and its developers.
Apple backed open web standards instead (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and H.264 video. Critics noted H.264 was patented too. It didn't matter. Adobe dropped mobile Flash in 2011, YouTube made HTML5 its default in 2015, and Adobe ended Flash support on 31 December 2020.
That left every site that wanted video on iPhones and iPads with a problem: play without a plugin, on an HTML5 video element that was new and inconsistent.
Video.js, a weekend experiment by Steve Heffernan at Zencoder, was one of the first soltuions.
Our upcoming film tells that story, and what happened in 2025, when Steve came back and Video.js started over.
Video.js: The Documentary is coming...
Trailer: Thursday 29 October at 11:30am PDT
Premieres Live on 5 November on CultRepo YT at 10:30am PST
@MuxHQ @videojs @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @luwes @sam_potts
What do frogs and proprietary software have to do with each other?
Catch the full KDE documentary now: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
KDE has gotten more views in the first 48hrs than any other documentary we made, including React, Python, C++, etc. Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
25 minutes until we kick-off with the live premier of KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs. Join us!
youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
Join us tomorrow, October 14th, at 7:30pm CEST for the live premiere of The KDE Documentary. Link here --
youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…
Aaron Siego led KDE Plasma and served as President of KDE e.V. Here he talks about why KDE, and free software more broadly, still matters.
Full documentary premieres October 14.
youtube.com/watch?v=bJuYlZxk…
Where does the 'K' in KDE come from!?
youtu.be/VM3X31PzzAE
The KDE documentary is out on CultRepo on October 14th.
Interesting thread from Armin, who was featured in our Python documentary and our Pi and Flask mini-docs! youtube.com/watch?v=GXJwX3tp…
The KDE Documentary trailer is out! The Full documentary drops on October 14th, exactly 30 years since Matthias Ettrich's Usenet post which launched the community.
Subscribe to CultRepo to be notified for the full release: youtube.com/@cultrepo
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When Matthias Ettrich posted his initial vision in 1996, many believed matching the cohesive user experience of Windows 95 using free software was a fantasy. Today, KDE is globally recognised as one of the most powerful, mature, and unified desktop ecosystems in existence.
Learn the full story in our upcoming documentary. The trailer for the film is out on Saturday 19th!
On Oct 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich, a CS student in Germany, posted to three Usenet groups asking for programmers to help build a real desktop for Linux.
That post led to the creation of KDE, one of the most impactful free software communities in the world.
Catch the trailer for our new documentary about KDE on Saturday 19th.
Read the original full post here: kde.org/announcements/announ…
Where is C++ used?
Watch the full C++ Documentary on our channel: youtu.be/lI7tMxzSJ7w?si=31go…