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by brandonsmits 4255 days ago
Time is interesting. There's certainly no way you could stream videos like this right now, but the mention of future multithreading and GPU support would help minimize the time. You could support "cramming" by blocks of bytes rather than a whole file and leave the beginning uncompressed so you could start a stream and decompress the rest of the file with some lead time for the viewer. Certainly, this is pushing the bounds of hardware as of right now, but in a few years that'd be irrelevant anyway. They also pretty clear about it being a beta, can't wait to see what it could do in future.