Blast Theory 2013

Presentation

YouDrive

http://www.youtube.com/youdrive

• Interactive narrative.
• User chooses path of narrative at set points.
• Narrative forks at these points creating a few different possible stories.
• Built with YouTube Video API and native HTML5 Video for mobile fallback.
• Built on top of JavaScript frameworks BackboneJS (MVC) and RequireJS (AMD).
• Timeline built using HTML5 Canvas API.

Wowza, JW Player & HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

• HLS only supported by Safari, Android (>=3.0). Not IE9, Chrome or Firefox.
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10104301/hls-streaming-video-url-need-for-testing

• Example stream from apple.com. Works on Android. Cannot get it to work using JW Player.
  https://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/examples/basic-stream.html

• JW Player documentation. Embedding configuration.
  http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28839/embedding-the-player

• wowza stream to JW Player html5 - question on SO
  http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?18609-wowza-stream-to-JW-player-HTML5