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Hey this is awesome! I'd love to hear more about some big issues you had, and how you solved them. For example, you mentioned using the webcodecs API for quick rendering. What do you mean by that? What was the slower alternative? Also when did you choose ffmpeg Vs webcodecs API and what were the differences? A lot questions, sorry just really impressed!

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So basically webcodecs API is the best thing to happen in video processing, decoding and encoding are the most demanding parts of rendering, honestly there werent any good alternatives at all and If it wasnt for webcodecs api I wouldnt even bother trying to do it fully clientside, it would be slow and all, here is a bit about the alternatives: https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs/blob/main/explainer.md none of those alternatvies were specifically just for decoding and encoding, usually you had to work around it and get average results at best which I really wasnt satisfied with. When it comes to ffmpeg vs webcodecs API, honestly ffmpeg is slow as decoder and encoder I really dont recommend using it when theres webcodecs api, obviously depends what you are trying to do, but my god I dont remember exacly how fast it was but ive got like 10 fps when decoding or something like that, you would be better off just playing the video and drawing it in real time

Thanks for the input! Some time ago I wanted to make some simple canvas animation into a video (output of some sensor data), but the animation should take about 5++ minutes to play, real time to the sensor values.

I found no way of really exporting it in browser without either rendering it real time (so having to wait forever) or through some asm ports (still slow). So this is better now?

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