Show HN: Dripi.com - A little web app that won a Google I/O ticket
I thought I'd share my winning entry to the Google I/O last call competition with ya'll.
Took me about 9 hours, which seems like a lot looking at it now (my only excuse is that it took place after 12am). I truly did not expect to be one of the winners. My guess is that the YouTube API category had fewer entries than others.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
This was the challenge:
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a video mash-up by chaining player invocations that work for both Flash and HTML5 videos ? Well, with the JavaScript API to the <iframe> embed we think you can.
Your task is to build a mash-up player using the <iframe> JavaScript API. You will be given a list of video IDs, and from-to timestamps. For example the following sequence (<xxasdadad, 65s, 95s>, <xxffwwe22, 20s, 35s>), which will trigger the mash-up player to play video with ID xxasdadad for 30 seconds, starting at second 65 and ending at second 95, then proceed to play video with ID xxffwwe22, starting at second 20 and ending at second 35.
Given the sequence, implement a player which will play the sections of the listed videos, starting at the ‘from’ timestamp, and ending at the ‘to’ timestamp for each video.
Try to make the transitions between videos as smooth as possible, and make it easy for users to embed your mash-up player in their own web applications.
I encourage everyone to enter this contest if they hold it again next year. It was a blast!