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An HTML5 based video player for reading content from your PC on your other PCs.
Home Video Player is a web application written in PHP. It is installed on a web server and provides a video player through the web browser. Therefore it is accessible to all your machines on the network.
The application is written in HTML5 language and is based on the <video> tag. Right now it also provides a different video backend based on VLC. It comes with two main interfaces, the first one is the player, the second one is the administration panel.
The configuration specifies one or more directories on the server that contain video files. Through the administration panel it is possible to add files into the playlist, and symbolic links are created automatically in order to get access to these files through the web server. Removing videos from the playlist automatically destroys the according symbolic links. This makes it possible to access any video on the hard-drive.
With regard to video codecs, web browsers come with very poor support, in fact they intend to standardize with WebM (VP8 codec). While web browsers will support one codec officially, most support in addition Theora and H.264. In order to play DivX videos, there are two solutions, one can install the DivX Plus Web Player or can use the VLC Plugin for Mozilla. The DivX Plus Web Player solution works on top of the HTML5 backend by replacing the in-built video player from the web browser with its own player.
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