#popcorn.js

For media makers: Popcorn.js allows video, audio and other media to control elements of a webpage.  Combining our library with a mixture of standard HTML + JavaScript, authors can let their media be the “conductor” of interactive and immersive experiences. 

VisionOn.tv interviewed Simon Klose about Linklib and his documentary "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from the Keyboard" during Mozfest.

"I have this problem as a filmmaker. I want to give people more stories, extra material and at the same time insert the crazy large online piracy debate into the film."

"In my search to do that i found this amazing technology called popcorn.js, developed by this internet loving company, Mozilla. I was really struck by it's power to deepen stories (...) but at the same time i didn't want anything distracting in my frame."

"So we built a system were we can send time synced links to the audiences' phones, tables and second screens. This way the audience can choose for themselves if they want to watch the information during or after the film. 

This weekend we're launching Linklib - a way to send time synced movie commentary from streamed videos to phones and tablets. A lot of exciting stuff is coming up, including this weekend's event at Mozilla Festival in London!

Simon Klose, director of the upcoming feature documentary "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard" wanted to find a way to broaden the complex Pirate Bay story by embedding links into the film without using distracting popups. The result is a remix of Mozilla's groundbreaking popcorn.js project that lets film lovers send links to a second screen just when something happens in a film. That way it's up to the audience to decide if they want to read the info during or after the film.

Instead of googling an actor, fact checking an election video or feverishly trying to find the soundtrack to that TV-series, just pick up the phone and the information is right there.

It’s fun, easy and will change how you watch video forever.

Linklib at Mozilla Festival

Sun. 11:00 - 14:00

Location: Ravensbourne / 1st Floor

Organized by: Simon Klose

TPB AFK Augumentary Linkontrol from Klo on Vimeo.

Popcorn.js[http://popcornjs.org/]

Popcorn.js is Mozilla's HTML5 video and media library for the open web. It allows web developers, filmmakers, artists, designers and others to easily create timeline based web productions. Popcorn.js helps simplify media API and implementation differences between browsers and includes a powerful event system and a rich plugin architecture and plugins.

Popcorn.js can be used with almost any media type you can imagine, from HTML5 audio and video, to YouTube and Vimeo, to SoundCloud, etc. Popcorn.js also has plugins to allow content from popular web sites and services to be integrated easily, for example, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps, etc.

popcorn.js ist ein HTML5 Media Framework. Ich habe dazu schon mehrere Screencasts aufgenommen und veröffentlicht. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL395F3CF552AA3DC9&feature=plcp Heute habe ich eine popcorn.js - Demo HTML-Seite erstellt. Screencast 185 wird dabei gezeigt. Die Plugins wordriver, subtitle und timeline werden genutzt um dynamische Anzeigen und Zuatzinformationen zu generieren. Hier ist das Ergebnis: