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0 pointsstephenr6y ago0 comments

> If you are going to create an app that does video, audio and web rtc, it would be silly not to use a battle tested browser engine that does all this already.

I think you mean "create an app that does video, audio USING web rtc".

Plenty of native desktop/mobile apps do video/audio/text without embedding a browser.

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BiteCode_dev6y ago· 4 in thread

> Plenty of native desktop/mobile apps do video/audio/text without embedding a browser.

Yes and it's a pain to do: format is limited, packaging is hard, ability to manipulate/embed the video is annoying. In fact, most apps doing that ship ffmpeg and/or vlc and call it a day. The browser gives so you much for free.

stephenrOP6y ago

> The browser gives so you much for free.

including arguably the most attacked and compromised software surface in history.

untog6y ago

Most attacked, I could believe. Most compromised, I'm not so sure. Browser teams ship out new versions very regularly, it's nothing compared to vulnerabilities contained within the first release of Windows XP, for example.

Is it? ffmpeg as a library can decode about anything you want and put it in a buffer in less than 100 lines. Is that not for free? It's a self contained shared library.

Electron apps have the slowest interfaces on anything I've seen, lots of times each click of a button or menu has lag on a very solid computer. Who wants to have a program doing video embedded in a painfully slow interface?

BiteCode_dev6y ago

This implies you dev in C or C++, and do all the controls, lifecycle and fallbacks yourself.

That a huge price.

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