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What is WebChimera?

WebChimera is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the most powerful video tools in the hands of developers.

With a team of very experienced developers, we have created incredible projects that have helped hundreds of developers to make amazing apps and websites.

How can I help?

If you are a developer, then please contribute to our projects to help us grow and get closer to our objective.

Programming languages required: JavaScript and/or C++

WebChimera Projects

For NW.js, Electron and all Chromium based platforms with Node.js support:

• WebChimera.js Player - a full featured video player
• WebChimera.js Angular Player - angular video player
• WebChimera.js Renderer - uses WebChimera.js to render a video (by drawing the frames in webgl)
• WebChimera.js - libvlc binding, the JS api allows you to control libvlc and get raw frames in UInt8Array

Automating the building process:

• WebChimera.js Prebuilt
• WebChimera.js Grunt Task

Prebuilts can be downloaded from: https://github.com/RSATom/WebChimera.js/releases

For Web Browsers:

As these are based on an NPAPI / ActiveX Plugin, it will only work on Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome, Opera and Microsoft Edge no longer support it due to NPAPI Deprecation.

• WebChimera NPAPI Player - full featured video player created in QML with it's own advanced JS API based on WebChimera NPAPI Plugin
• WebChimera NPAPI Plugin - Web Browser NPAPI Plugin based on Vlc + Firebreath + Qt Quick 2/Qml