[binarydreams]

Author here. Wrote an article on the process including certain issues as well - http://codetheory.in/html5-fullscreen-background-video/

I did try to work around slow network speed (can see in the network_speed_optim branch on github but with the current APIs it's a tough problem to crack.

The current implementation is basic but works well. Suggestions welcome so that I can improve it.