Javascript magic up the wazoo!

08 May 2012

List, and descriptions, of various decoders

(WIP)

This is just a quick list of various JavaScript decoders, VMs, and the like.

Image decoders

All of these render using Canvas.

pdf.js - Demo
png.js - Demo
jpgjs - Demo
jsgif - Demo
bmp.js - Demo
weppy (WebP) - Demo
canvg (SVG) - Demo
psd.js - Demo (Demo requires drag-and-drop support)

Video decoders

Broadway (H.264) - Demo (Uses WebGL?)
Route9.js (VP8/WebM) - Demo

Plugin replacements

shumway (Flash) - No demo.
jvm-js - No demo.
BicaVM (JVM) - No demo.

Browser features

html2canvas - Demo. Examples/tests.
DrawWindow - Renders HTML to Canvas. Demos
dom.js - Pure JavaScript implementation of the DOM. No demo.

Audio

pitch.js - pitch detection library.
Aurora.js - this is not a decoder, but rather a framework for making them.

Codecs using Aurora.js:

aac.js - No demo yet.
alac.js - Demo
flac.js - Demo
jsmad (MP3) - See mp3.js.
mp3.js - Fork of jsmad modified to use Aurora.js. Demo
ogg/vorbis - Demo: the README explains how to run a demo locally.

Codecs not using Aurora.js:

pcmdata.js (.wav) - No demo.
mp2dec.js - Demo
ogg/vorbis - Alternative, and older, ogg/vorbis implementation. This may not be FOSS. Demo

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