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by colek42 7 days ago
In 2016 I was working for an organization that wanted a video streaming web app, but could not tolerate any latency. In the past, we solved this with an NAPI extension in Firefox. They removed this for good security reasons, but it left our users without an option. They would have to move to an electron app. Distributing this app and updating it across 1000s of terminals worldwide was not something we were set up to do. I hacked together something like this and could not believe how well it worked. The initial POC is here: https://github.com/colek42/streamingDemo.
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Thank you. This works entirely offline. I work in a univ setting where I cannot easily install software for classes. This can be used as a regular app once installed as a PWA. Even the ffmppeg lib is cached. Once installed it looks like any other app, with dock icon etc.