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> The choice of using a hub is mainly because I didn't have control of the camera firmware. As I've mentioned in other comments, if I could, I'd move the hub logic to directly run inside the camera.

Yeah. I'm also frustrated with cameras in general. I've commented on this a few times here before, [1] but tl;dr: I don't even know what camera I'd recommend even if I had the perfect open source firmware to flash onto it easily.

> Regarding the multi-user support: yes, that's on the to-do list. A nice aspect of MLS is the notion of groups that it provides. In Privastead, each camera will have a separate MLS group and it could add multiple devices/smartphones to the group. The hub will then try to deliver the video to all devices in the group. Many aspects of the multi-user support still needs to be figured out, but it's technically feasible.

Okay, interesting, yeah that sounds like a significant step up for most folks.

> Regarding ffmpeg: I agree. I'm aware of it and I have it in my to-do list to replace that with a Rust-based implementation. In fact, I'll be looking into your retina library as one potential replacement. :-)

Patches very welcome. It could use more attention than I've been able to give it recently but likely will interact well with your camera model as-is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37815064




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