MJPEG-Video_Webcomponent

This project provides a robust video player component for modern browsers that plays MJPEG video streams. No plugin's required.

The < video> tag in HTML5 is nice and all, but they totally left out MJPEG. This fixes that.

Features:

• Automatic resume from loss of connectivity
• Loss of video stream detection
• Fullscreen mode
• 500%+ performance improvement over native browser < IMG> tag solution
• Easy support for overlaying other html elements on top of the video

Built on:

• HTML5 webcomponents
• polymer

Installation

bower install mjpeg-video-webcomponents

Usage

<mjpeg-video src='<url of mjpeg stream>' style='width: 1280px; height:720px'></mjpeg-video>

To insert text on the upper right of the video:

<mjpeg-video src='<url of mjpeg stream>' style='width: 1280px; height:720px'>
<p style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; z-index:2">Overlay Text!</p>
</mjpeg-video>

Refer to the example/index.html file for detailes.

Contributing

The most obvious things this project needs support with:

1. Testing on multiple browsers
2. Submitting pull requests for improvements
3. Unit tests

To setup a development environment:

please note: The bower install of the subcomponent will install one folder below so that the dependencies are at the same folder level of this project so that the relative paths to those dependencies work.

clone https://github.com/BrianAdams/openrov-mjpeg-video-webcomponent
cd openrov-mjpeg-video-webcomponent/example
bower install

go ahead and modify the index.html file to have the address of your video stream and load the page. As you need to make changes, you can simply run bower install again to pull in your updates in to the example project for testing.

Attribution

FullScreenImage By http://www.iconarchive.com/artist/dakirby309.html (IconArchive) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) or FAL], via Wikimedia Commons