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Theatherflix Extension is a browser extension that provides personalized movie and series recommendations to users. Using The Movie Database (TMDb) API, the extension fetches popular movie data and displays customized suggestions based on user preferences.

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Research: handling unsupported video container/codec

jp6rt opened this issue · comments

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Initial plan to play the video to the user is by html5 video player. This is not a problem for supported video formats however how about unsupported video formats.

Creating a streaming service that will run on user's machine can be quite expensive due to following:

  1. Transcoding video files take a lot of cpu resource on user's end.
  2. Transcoding softwares are not entirely free.

One of the suggestions is to use the user's video players (e.g., media player classic, vlc, etc.)
The question is,

  1. Is there a better way to handle this scenario?
  2. If we end up connecting to the user's video players, how do we do it?
commented

there are ways.... it's a matter of research .... ;)