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Video.js: The Documentary is live. You’ve almost certainly pressed play on Video.js without knowing it. This is the story of the people who build it, and why, 15 years after its launch, they decided to start over. youtube.com/watch?v=Kpka8SYb… @videojs @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @cjpillsbury @luwes @sam_potts

Join us for the live premiere of Video.js: The Documentary in 10 minutes: youtube.com/watch?v=Kpka8SYb…

Starring: @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @luwes @sam_potts

Steve Jobs’ 2010 announcement that the iPhone would not support Adobe Flash marked the beginning of the end of Flash. HTML5 video was the alternative, but browsers implemented it inconsistently, and there were few tools for building on it. That same year, @videojs was released as an open-source HTML5 player that worked the same way across browsers and fell back to Flash where it had to. It became one of the most widely used video players on the web. Our documentary tells how it got there, how it nearly fell apart, and how it was rebuilt. Trailer out Thursday, 29 October. Full film on 5 November. Catch it here: youtube.com/@cultrepo

Catch 'The Story Behind Gitleaks: How a Hobby Project Became a Security Staple' on CultRepo tonight at 7pm GMT. youtube.com/watch?v=aQhjhGul… Any guesses which city we shot this in? Thanks to @AikidoSecurity @lookatcomputer

On 29 April 2010, Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash", an open letter giving six reasons iPhones and iPads would not run Adobe's plugin. It changed how the web plays video. Jobs argued that flash was proprietary, crashed Macs, had a poor security record, drained batteries, relied on mouse hovers touchscreens lack, and put a third-party layer between Apple and its developers. Apple backed open web standards instead (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and H.264 video. Critics noted H.264 was patented too. It didn't matter. Adobe dropped mobile Flash in 2011, YouTube made HTML5 its default in 2015, and Adobe ended Flash support on 31 December 2020. That left every site that wanted video on iPhones and iPads with a problem: play without a plugin, on an HTML5 video element that was new and inconsistent. Video.js, a weekend experiment by Steve Heffernan at Zencoder, was one of the first soltuions. Our upcoming film tells that story, and what happened in 2025, when Steve came back and Video.js started over. Video.js: The Documentary is coming... Trailer: Thursday 29 October at 11:30am PDT Premieres Live on 5 November on CultRepo YT at 10:30am PST @MuxHQ @videojs @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @luwes @sam_potts

What do frogs and proprietary software have to do with each other? Catch the full KDE documentary now: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…

KDE has gotten more views in the first 48hrs than any other documentary we made, including React, Python, C++, etc. Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…

Long Live FOSS! The KDE documentary is now live ... youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…

25 minutes until we kick-off with the live premier of KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs. Join us! youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…

Join us tomorrow, October 14th, at 7:30pm CEST for the live premiere of The KDE Documentary. Link here -- youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9m…

Aaron Siego led KDE Plasma and served as President of KDE e.V. Here he talks about why KDE, and free software more broadly, still matters. Full documentary premieres October 14. youtube.com/watch?v=bJuYlZxk…

So....we have a new website: cultrepo.com/films 👏

Where does the 'K' in KDE come from!? youtu.be/VM3X31PzzAE The KDE documentary is out on CultRepo on October 14th.