sync-video

What is this?

A tiny minimalist JavaScript app that syncs play/pause status across different viewers.

Demo

License

sync-video is licensed under GPLv3.

The text of GPLv3 is included in LICENSE and can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

Notes

• Tested to work under Chrome.
• Currently works with html5 only.
• Not suitable for anything serious. (No sessions, authentication, anything.)

How to use

• Create a Firebase account and make an app
• Import jQuery
• Import the Firebase client. (Look at [this page] (https://www.firebase.com/docs/web-quickstart.html) if you need to find it)
• Define a global FIREBASE_ROOT variable that points to one of your apps
• Call syncVideo with the video element as the first argument and a unique ID as the second. The ID has to be the same across clients.
• Profit

TODO

• This madness needs to end: Rewrite whole program in a way that makes more sense.
• Change behavior so that syncVideo is a function that takes a video element and syncs that
• If seeking to the same spot: seek
• Change behavior so they're all unique events (fixes above)

Copyright 2014 Ahmed Al-Sudani