System and method for playing a video on mobile web environments

1. A method for auto-playing a video clip within a web environment of a mobile computing device, comprising:

including an auto-play script in a webpage downloaded to the web environment, wherein the web environment is disabled to auto-play video clips; and

executing the auto-play script within the web environment, wherein the execution of the auto-play script causes at least: receiving the video clip from an external source and automatically playing the video clip in the web environment.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing the auto-play script within the web environment further comprises:

receiving a set of parameters related to the video clip;

downloading video bytes of the video clip from the external resource;

parsing the downloaded video bytes to detect at least encoded video frames;

decoding the encoded video frames using an emulated video decoder; and

rendering the decoded video frames into the web environment.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining a video format of the video clip;

using the emulated video decoder respective of the determined video format.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein rendering the decoded video frames into the web environment is performed using an HTML5 canvas tag.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the emulated video decoder is coded using a scripting programming language.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the auto-play script is coded using a scripting programming language, wherein the scripting programming language is at least a JavaScript.

7. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining if a color space of the decoded video frames is a YUV color space; and

converting the decoded video frames having a YUV color space into a RGB color space, upon determining if the color space of the decoded video frames is a YUV color space.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein converting the decoded video frames from the YUV color space into the RGB color space further comprises:

performing a WebGL conversion.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein performing the WebGL conversion further comprises:

creating a YUV WebGL canvas object;

instantiating a WebGL context with a shader program;

segmenting, using the object, each decoded video frame into YUV components;

performing, using the object, a red-green-blue (RGB) transformation of the YUV components, wherein the RGB transformation results in RGB images;

rendering video using the RGB images.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the rendering of the RGB images further comprises: repetitively rendering RGB images into a HTML5 canvas.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the web environment includes any one of: a web browser, a mobile application, a web application, and a native application.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute a process for auto-playing a video Clip within a web environment of a mobile computing device, the process comprising:

including an auto-play script in a webpage downloaded to the web environment, wherein the web environment is disabled to auto-play video clips; and

executing the auto-play script within the web environment, wherein the execution of the auto-play script causes at least: receiving the video clip from an external source and automatically playing the video clip in the web environment.

13. A mobile computing device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the mobile computing device to:

include an auto-play script in a webpage downloaded to a web environment, wherein the web environment is disabled to auto-play video clips; and

execute the auto-play script within the web environment,

wherein the execution of the auto-play script by the at least one processor causes at least: receiving the video clip from an external source and automatically playing the video clip in the web environment.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 13 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

receive a set of parameters related to the video clip;

download video bytes of the video clip from the external resource;

parse the downloaded video bytes to detect at least encoded video frames;

decode the encoded video frames using an emulated video decoder; and

render the decoded video frames into the web environment.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 13 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

determine a video format of the video clip;

use the emulated video decoder respective of the determined video format.

16. The mobile computing device of claim 14 , wherein rendering the decoded video frames into the web environment is performed using an HTML5 canvas tag.

17. The mobile computing device of claim 16 , wherein the emulated video decoder is coded using a scripting programming language.

18. The mobile computing device of claim 17 , wherein the auto-play script is coded using a scripting programming language, wherein the scripting programming language is at least a JavaScript.

19. The mobile computing device of claim 14 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

determine if a color space of the decoded video frames is a YUV color space;

convert the decoded video frames having a YUV color space into a RGB color space, upon determining if the color space of the decoded video frames is a YUV color space.

20. The mobile computing device of claim 19 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to: perform a WebGL conversion to convert the decoded video frames having a YUV color space into a RGB color space.

21. The mobile computing device of claim 20 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

create a YUV WebGL canvas object;

instantiate a WebGL context with a shader program;

segment, using the object, each decoded video frame into YUV components;

perform, using the object, a red-green-blue (RGB) transformation of the YUV components, wherein the RGB transformation results in RGB images;

render video using the RGB images.

22. The mobile computing device of claim 21 , wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to:

repetitively render RGB images into a HTML5 canvas.

23. The mobile computing device of claim 13 , wherein the web environment includes any one of: a web browser, a mobile application, a web application, and a native application.