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Support for the same wide variety of formats that VLC now supports.

The author works for the Internet Archive and it obviously has a huge amount of files in a variety of formats that are not playable natively by browsers, and probably never will be.

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VLC's support comes from its support for the codecs. Why not port the codecs to JavaScript so that the existing HTML5 features can make use of those formats?

For this to work, the codecs need to be able to compile to JS via emscripten, so what you are asking for is necessarily part of the task.

But playing a DVD, for example, isn't just about codecs, they have menus and various other features that need to be implemented too.

I'm curious how VLC usually draws inline UI elements, menu effects and such. If they need to be implemented separately per platform or if they just need to create an adapter for drawing the usual VLC UI.

I think they just use Qt.

Supported on tons of platforms, makes sense I guess. Linux has some variant for GTK as well if I recall correctly.

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