Is anybody busy writing a simple MPEG decoder in Javascript? Would it be difficult to port the standard routines from mplayer?
I would envision a purely Javascript decoder which gets it data packets using successive XmlHttpRequests. It would then decode the data and render into a suitable pixel array (
In the current state of browsers the resulting implementation would be too slow to be workable, but it would be nice to already have it. Because if I predict right, browsers are going to become more important and faster in the future. Probably fast enough to make this feasible.
