Serve videos [using Video.js ?]

[deldesir]

Is using a background task scheduler to asynchronously buffer video segments and serving them on-demand is a good solution in terms of mitigating the memory overloads as seen in #37

[holta]

It appears @deldesir is researching https://Videojs.com as a partial solution to:

• Some videos download as overweight (giant) files that (1) are not appropriate for schools, and (2) crash Calibre-Web with "502 Bad Gateway" #37

Front-end UX engineering is a huge amount of work that we should actively avoid in 2023.

However there are always exceptions, and this might well be one of those exceptions — e.g. if a tight + highly reliable PR turns out to be possible?

• PR Add Video.js #49 ?

[deldesir]

I reverted to using native HTML5 video player. Will switch to video.js again if necessary.