Hey everyone,
We're working on adding yet another player to the MistServer metaplayer. The webcodec player.
This player makes use of the new webcodec technology which allows native hardware acceleration in modern browsers. This gets you quite a low latency player with in theory the "best" support for devices as anything the hardware understands should be playable without any need of overhead.
Now in theory this all sounds perfect, in practise we're already seeing some complications between browsers. The streaming media pipeline cannot be implemented exactly the same way for every browser as every browser has slight changes in how it works. So we'll most likely end up with varying degrees of usability. We'll know for sure when we're completely done working on it, for now it at least seems to successfully allow codecs that normally don't work in our Linux Chrome-like browser.
