matvp

Hey, thank you! You're not the first to mention the docs. I'll have a full rewrite of the docs planned shortly where I'll address your (& others) valid points.

I didn't know membrane until now. We do some things similarly (like transcode), although I'd like to provide the full chain, from source to playback with real-time video manipulation (such as ad, bumper insertion, filtering, ...) The latter is unique to do that open sourced.

Author here, this is a fun surprise to wake up to! I was doubting whether my project was "ready to post on HN" but someone beat me to it.

With Superstreamer, I'd like to create building blocks that simplify video end-to-end. While I initially wrote it as an "all-in-one" toolkit, I'm more leaning towards an open architecture. Like, you could use Stitcher to insert HLS interstitials (like ads, or bumpers) but have your original playlists come from Mux, Cloudflare Stream, etc... The transcode and package infrastructure is there for you to use it if you'd like to stick to a fully self hostable solution.

As for player, it's a neat facade around HLS.js (kudos to the maintainers, their project is great), while initially a streaming library, the facade exposes an interface that makes sense for UI developers.

Happy to answer any questions you have.

As a parent of an almost 2 year old (tomorrow!), I feel a bit worried of what is yet to come. I notice kids around me (family, kids of friends) ranging 3 to 10+ mostly consume YouTube, TikTok, ... on a daily basis and when they do, they're totally isolated from what happens around them. They get feeded ad after ad, watching teenagers doing odd dances, minecraft video's, ... Rarely something of pedagogical value. Hope I can do better, time will tell. Tips are welcome though.

While I agree HN shouldn't be used as a way to get direct customer support, I don't think it's fair to grab and point our pitchforks to @jgrahamc over a one sided story. There's not nearly enough information from both sides to create fair judgement (these things happen, unfortunately, at larger scale with automated processes). What matters is the afterthought and actions taken of what's going to prevent a similar situation in the future (which I'd love to read from both OP and @jgrahamc if possible). HN is my go to stop for well formulated opinions written by people way smarter than me and I think we dropped the ball here, HN can do better. That said, happy that your issue got resolved OP and goodluck with your project!

Side note, synthetic events are no longer pooled since React 17. There's no longer a noticable performance gain with more modern browsers nowadays.

Happy newyear from Belgium!

Providing adaptive video (MPEG-DASH / HLS on any non Safari browser) still requires JS though.

How would one ship a full engine with an app on an OTT device? I've built a few TV apps but they all relied on the browser engines shipped with webOS and Tizen.

They were valid years ago when I was a kid but god knows what my favorite food was 10 years ago.