Crunchyroll HTML5

Replaced Crunchyroll's Flash player with an HTML5 equivalent

As of 2017-08-17. See the latest version.

Author
DoomTay
Ratings
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Version
0.9.2
Created
2017-08-16
Updated
2017-08-17
License
N/A
Applies to

Replaces Crunchyroll's Flash player with an HTML5 setup using video.js. Sure, there's such a thing officially in the works for Premium Plus users, but what about the rest of us?

There are some minor setbacks with this, due to either measures being taken to ensure compatibility with Firefox and Chrome or due to limitations of the plugins involved

  • Only one preroll ad will play. No support for midroll or postroll. This is due to a limitation of the videojs-vast-vpaid plugin. There is a pull request to support that, though.
  • The vjs-ass plugin relies on libjass to work right, so setting that up through @require won't work.
  • Subtitles will be visible during the ad. I could set up event listeners to detect when the ad has started and finished, but sometimes it interferes with the subtitles font measurement
  • No support for episode previews.
  • No support for autoplay. It involves accessing XML at a certain URL and I've yet to figure out how to find said URL