Playing DVD in JavaScript for the sake of interoperability

For more details on this project, have a look at the video of the talk I gave at JS Conf 2014.

The slide deck is also available.

This deprecated branch contains the original attempt to play DVD in the browser on-the-fly. It turns out it's not quite possible right now.

For the DVD converter that is currently being worked on, look into the converter branch.

I ported libdvdread and libdvdnav to JavaScript. This project uses a server / client architecture. Communication is achieved via binary WebSockets.

• Client:
  • parses IFO files
  • runs the VM
  • requests portions of the video (assembled using Media Source Extension)
  • decodes the subpictures (not implemented yet)
• Server:
  • sends IFO files
  • sends bits of preencoded video to Webm
  • extracts and sends the NAV packets from VOB files

• Chrome desktop
• Firefox desktop (requires the media.mediasource.enabled flag to be activated)
• IE11 on Windows 8 (untested + webm plugin required)
• Opera desktop > 15 (probably)

Yes, please, use it, open issues and send pull requests.

There are several reasons:

• I am frustrated with the current VOD offer and I don't want to watch movies or TV series on my mobile if I already own the DVD.
• I noticed I'm listening to my CD more often now that I'm using Google Play Music and am looking for a similar solution for my DVD.

There's more in DVD than the video. You can select audio track, subtitles, navigate through the menu, play interactive game or browse a gallery of still images.

I wanted to understand the logic in the JavaScript.

Also I don't do C and wasn't even able to compile the programs coming with libdvdread and libdvdnav on my PC... ^^;