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Looks good. I went to the demo page and clicked on a few movies and scrubbed through at random. Everything worked flawlessly.

I'm curious to know about scaling. How many users does a server (and of what kind) support? What's backing your demo page and how many users would overload it?

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Thanks a lot. The demo is the docker-compose from the README on an oracle's VPS always free tier. I never tried to benchmark the server, but the limiting factor will certainly be the encode speed of the machine. If your clients all needs transcoding of different h265 8K movies at the same time, you would need vastly different GPU/CPU power than for the same amount of users with direct play.

I'm impressed you can host it on the Oracle free tier. Great project, thanks.

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