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Interesting project, the only question i have is about this:

> seek effortlessly without waiting for the transcoder

Depending on the container and codec this was always an issue. How did you solve that problem? are you not using libav?

I run ffmpeg on small segments of video and when you seek too far from the current transcoded position, i create another ffmpeg process. The hard part is making sure those segments can be watched without gaps or issues and no audio/video segment is repeated. If there is enough interest about it I might make a blog post explaining this in details

I'm using the time skip/seek functions more than I should and Plex, Jellyfin, Emby are really not good in that department. I was WAITING for somebody to fix this problem. Plex, Jellyfin, etc. None of them came close to the youtube experience. It always felt very slow and clunky. I can't thank you enough for this really. Thank you very much for addressing this issue and creating this amazing project!

Thanks for the nice words, I must say I was not expecting that many people to like kyoo. That's really heartwarming <3

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