#656: MSE-in-Workers
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2021-09-Gethen
Good to see the open questions section in the explainer, and multi-vendor interest. It's not fully parallelizable, which is probably okay. It gets the hard work off of the main thread. And they don't end up needing any author-facing complicated locking, which is nice.
OpenedJun 30, 2021
Ya ya yawm TAG!
I'm requesting a TAG review of MSE-in-Workers.
Enable Media Source Extensions (MSE) API usage from DedicatedWorker contexts to enable improved performance of buffering media for playback by an HTMLMediaElement on the main Window context. By creating a MediaSource object on a DedicatedWorker context, an application may then create an ObjectURL for it and postMessage that URL to the main thread for use in attaching to an HTMLMediaElement. The context that created the MediaSource object may then use it to buffer media.
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We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as:
🐛 open issues in our GitHub repo for each point of feedback, with issue title prefix "MSE-in-Workers:".