Helping a labmate stream a video from python that gets processed framewise as a series of arrays to the browser for some dashboard, and the amount of tutorials that encourage you to encode every frame as a b64 JPEG and dynamically update the src attribute on an img element are too damn high. I even saw an example in a major package that converted to jpg, rendered the jpg in a canvas element, and then re-rendered the canvas to a b64 jpeg string before setting it as an img src.
Sometimes it feels like the python ecosystem has just never heard of "video codecs" before
Dr. jonny phd /
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2025-04-23 23:41:35
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