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ogv.js
JavaScript2014–2023
bvibber / ogv.js

ogv.js

JavaScript media player using Ogg/Vorbis/Theora/Opus/WebM libs compiled with Emscripten

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1.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

JavaScript media player using Ogg/Vorbis/Theora/Opus/WebM libs compiled with Emscripten

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-06 00:39:07 UTC to 2023-10-24 03:28:30 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

3 sources
TD-Linux·Jun 5, 2017
We've already implemented this as part of a web-based AV1 analyzer tool. You provide the URL to both the image and the decoder, which is very convenient because the decoder is constantly changing [1]. Wikipedia also does this to enable video playback on Edge and Safari [2]. The idea to do this within the format itself is quite old. The very early versions of what became Vorbis had a very similar concept, with programmable passes. Matroska once had a field for a link to download the VfW decoder dll (the horror!). It's never really caught on, due to reasons already listed by sibling comments. [1] https://arewecompressedyet.com/analyzer/?maxFrames=4&decoder... [2] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
In HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format
peterhajas·Feb 2, 2017
Video decoding in JS is very impressive - really highlights the speed of modern interpreters. I especially love that a Björk track from the 90's is featured. I recently worked on a personal project which had to play back .webm files, and I used a similar utility: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/ It decodes .webm files and plays them in the web. I believe it's also used by Wikipedia to play bag Ogg files.
In JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

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