brendan @brendonovich.dev · Jan 14 cap.so performs all video rendering in Rust, but uses a web frontend via @tauri.app. how does the frontend receive frames from the backend? WebSockets! we've found local WebSockets can handle >500mb/s of throughput, allowing us to display 1080p@60fps video on a <canvas>!
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"RGBA frames via WebSockets" I'm sorry, what?! That's an insane amount of pixel data, even if it's on localhost. Have you tried using very lightweight codecs on those raw, uncompressed pixels?