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:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
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Serve videos [using Video.js ?] #46

Open deldesir opened 10 months ago

deldesir commented 10 months ago

Is using a background task scheduler to asynchronously buffer video segments and serving them on-demand is a good solution in terms of mitigating the memory overloads as seen in #37

holta commented 10 months ago

It appears @deldesir is researching https://Videojs.com as a partial solution to:

Front-end UX engineering is a huge amount of work that we should actively avoid in 2023.

However there are always exceptions, and this might well be one of those exceptions — e.g. if a tight + highly reliable PR turns out to be possible?

deldesir commented 10 months ago

I reverted to using native HTML5 video player. Will switch to video.js again if necessary.