jsmpeg VS Streama

>Today, there is a Python package for everything.

The same could be said about CPAN and NPM. Yet Perl is basically dead and JavaScript isn't used for any machine learning tasks as far as I'm aware. WebAssembly did help bring a niche array of audio and video codecs to the ecosystem[1][2], something I'm yet to see from Python.

I don't use Python, but with what little exposure I've had to it at work, its overall sluggish performance and need to set up a dozen virtualenvs -- only to dockerize everything in cursed ways when deploying -- makes me wonder how or why people bother with it at all beyond some 5-line script. Then again, Perl used to be THE glue language in the past and mod_perl was as big as FastAPI, and Perl users would also point out how CPAN was unparalleled in breadth and depth. I wonder if Python will follow a similar route as Perl. One can hope :-)

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg

There's also mpegts over websockets if you don't need iphone support. https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg

We will use jsmpeg to display the video on the page

I think this would be a bit of a hiding to nothing, an alternative considering you own all the DVD's, would be /r/selfhosting on something like Streama or Plex - assuming you have some spare hardware to do so, and can be bothered digitising your collection!

https://github.com/streamaserver/streama or Airsonic maybe?

I used Streama a few times. It's really great. You should check it out. https://github.com/streamaserver/streama Demo: https://streama.demo-version.net/

Ahhh I see! Jellyfin was great, but I ended up moving to Streama as it's got a nice interface akin to Netflix's one! It doesn't have the bells and whistles Plex and Kodi do though, and no TV stuff - I normally just pop an HDMI cable from a laptop into the TV.