Playback Video Player
mafintosh.github.io
mafintosh.github.io
It doesn't seem to play many formats (one of the major strengths of VLC is that it plays almost anything) nothing I saw about it that seems to scream innovative UI or super efficient playblack on low-end devices.
A feature we missed from VLC was that you could send video to Chromecast. That feature is now in Playback.
Or can Chromium really playback video files better than vlc/MPlayerX/QuickTime?
Chromium relies on ffmpeg, which is a fairly efficient library. It even relies on VLC's world-class h264 implementation, http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html.
I think we can skip a layer here.
Sure, you could skip a layer and make your video player talk directly to X11, but it wouldn't be cross-platform.
The browser is both an HTTP client and a UI kit, and some people are starting to skip the HTTP client part, and use it as a UI framework, essentially a competitor to Qt or GTK. That includes editors such as Brackets, Light Table or Atom, video viewers such as the infamous Popcorn Time, and games such as Game Dev Tycoon.
Picking a UI library is always about finding the right balance between cross-platform, ease of development and memory usage. Kits such as node-webkit and the Atom Shell (used here) give access to one more choice, albeit one which may consume more memory (for now) than many other options.
Yet, the windows and linux builds are not available?