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This looks absolutely terrific if it is performative. How long does this library take to generate the thumbnails and the seek bar for e.g. a 60 minute video, on 8-year-old desktop hardware? Or on older mobile devices? For reference, my current desktop is from 2012.

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Love the setup! A 2012 machine is a classic.

To answer your question: VAM-Seek doesn't pre-render the entire 60 minutes. It only extracts frames for the visible grid (e.g., 24-48 thumbnails) using the browser's hardware acceleration via Canvas.

On older hardware, the bottleneck is usually the browser's video seeking speed, not the generation itself. Even on a 2012 desktop, it should populate the grid in a few seconds. If it takes longer... well, that might be your PC's way of asking for a retirement plan! ;)

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