Video on the Canvas Examples
In the last section, we learned that the video playing on the
canvas and the video embedded with the <video> tag are, in fact, the same video.
It took a lot more code to play the video on the canvas than it did to
embed and play the video in JavaScript. This begs the question:
why load video onto the canvas at all?
Well, sometimes simply displaying a video and playing it is not enough. You might want events to occur as the video is playing, or perhaps you want to use transformations on it, use it in a game, create custom video controls, or animate it and move it on the canvas.
The following five examples will show you in very specific detail why the canvas can be an exciting way to display video.
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