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Scott Lamb
0236ab8d64 add live stream viewing to React prototype
It's a start. It can display several streams at once, which is nice.
There are lots of opportunities for improvement:

*   it doesn't keep the videos approximately in sync.
*   it accumulates extra buffering, drifting behind live. This is
    particularly noticeable when it's paused and played again; it can
    be several seconds before it jumps to after the break.
*   it always uses the sub stream rather main. I'd prefer it support
    "auto" (use main if the viewport is larger than the sub stream and
    there's sufficient bandwidth), "main", or "sub".
*   it has a kludgy heuristic where it throws away everything buffered 5
    seconds before the current timestamp. It should throw away
    everything before the current GOP instead, but I need to alter the
    API so it can easily know when that is.
*   it can't tell you when a camera connection is down. This needs an
    API change also.
*   it'd be nice to quickly double-click on a stream to view only it,
    then double-click again to go back to the multi-pane view.
*   it doesn't allow you to zoom in on part of the video. This would be
    nice particularly when viewing 4k video streams on small screens.
*   it has only four preconfigured layouts that subdivide a 16x9
    viewport. You have to choose every camera every time. It'd be nice
    to both allow more flexibility and have more memory.

React prototype: #111
live stream: #59
2021-03-26 16:45:47 -07:00
Scott Lamb
f281922359 start a new React-based UI (#111)
This doesn't do much yet but should provide a better foundation for
improvement than the jQuery UI, as described in the github issue.
2021-02-17 19:42:32 -08:00