electron_player

An alternative video player for BYU International Cinemas (based on Electron)

Installation

Install node (actually nvm so you can use npm)

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.6/install.sh | bash

Install electron

npm install -g electron

Run program

electron app.js

You may also need to install libgconf using

apt-get install libgconf-2-4

Usage

You should have three files before you begin trying to watch a video using electron_player.

∟ video.mp4 or video.m4v
∟ video.icf
∟ video.json

The names of the files do not need to match. The mp4 or m4v file contains the video. The json file contains the annotations which will be displayed. For more information on the format of the json file, please refer to the documentation in the JSONFormat.md file. The icf file contains something that looks like the following:

{
  "subtitle": null,
  "video": "KungFuPandamv_IC.m4v",
  "annotation": "KungFuPandamv_IC.json"
}

The video property contains the path of the video file. The annotation property contains the path of the json file. The subtitle property has not been implemented yet, but would potentially contain the path to the subtitle file.