Popcorn.js is an

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JavaScript library A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript code that allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies. They can be included in a website by embedding it directl ...

for

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media developers, freely available under the

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. It uses the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, normalizes them into an

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, and provides a plugin system. Extensible support for playing non-native media (ex:

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

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) is available through the normalized API via wrappers. Popcorn.js is part of a

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program to promote Web video creation via

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, and though outside Web development communities, has been named by sources such as Wired.com as one of technologies with the greatest potential in the future of video online.

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