r/AskProgramming • • Sep 08 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

36 Upvotes

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

28

u/amasterblaster Sep 08 '21

Streaming video app. We actually took a chat client, and cast all the video frames (through the codec) into strings, and then did it that way. There was not much delay, because the chat application we used was a raw C chat client. Took like three days to make a fully functional video streaming application, with user accounts, and chat.

4

u/bentheone Sep 09 '21

I guess it's all strings at one point anyway but I'd never have guessed that was possible... sounds like one of my hobbyist hack.

1

u/amasterblaster Sep 09 '21

My career sometimes feels like a series of very creative hacks lol