[LordDragonfang]

I get the impression you haven't tried to refactor a large code base to change core functionality before. Any system architecture is built with, inevitably, certain assumptions on how the data is going to come through the app and where it's going to come from. Something as low-level as the source of video files in an app that is no doubt optimized for that is undoubtedly a fundamental change, and one that is going to be easier to fork and rewrite than try to shoehorn into existing code.

[ksk]

Your impression notwithstanding, the fact is that dozens of applications already exist that can play network streams, play files from your hdd, and even record streams to your hard disk (VLC for one), means that its a known solved problem. If, as you say, a video streaming app, at its core, cannot handle something so basic as saving the stream to disk, or playing the video from disk, then I would count that as a major design failure.

Also I don't get where the "undoubtedly", "fundamental change", "going to be easier to X" comes from. What is your basis for those statements?