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1. Static Website generators for non-blogs 2. Half decent wrapper libraries for tools like FFMPEG in NPM 3. Plug and Play game server with stat tracking that can be easily used for any game 4. More versatile compression formats for media, ability to serve up 360/720/1080 from the same file?

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1. It's hard to give constructive help without more information. Why not write a script that compiles a bunch of pages into html? As the other comment said, there's also stuff like jekyll. Maybe you could provide some use-cases?

2. Explain your use-cases? Why not call ffmpeg directly? You'll need to familiarize yourself with the original library functionality anyway, no?

3. No opinion. Not particularly interested in games. Might be hard to generalize, maybe?

4. Versatile in what sense? What are your complaints with existing media formats? I think licensing is an issue, but stuff like VP9 and Opus seem to take care of that matter. I'm not an expert, but I think both MP4 and MKV can already hold an unlimited number of media files.

>Static Website generators for non-blogs

We use Jekyll for more than one site which is not a blog, works great for us so far. What features do you think are missing that you wish it had?

(4) can already be done with MKV... technically. You actually end up with 4 alternate video streams in the same MKV, which you remux for clients that can't handle it.

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