We have made a lot of progress toward our goals for the year. The Android client is stable and undergoing polish and testing. We are making a lot of progress on Android tv. A hardware donation of an onn streaming box has allowed increased testing on that platform. We’ve had several betas in the past week each improving pain points in the ui observed while “dog footing” the service on Android tv. The goal is to reach feature parity on all platforms.
We have added subtitles to nearly every channel now. We’ve received several new servers and nvidia encoders. The new encoders have allowed us to increase the quality of the channels without increasing file size. A major goal going forward is to move from h264 to h265. In theory this should reduce our file sizes by about 50% (and as a result reduce the cost of bandwidth) while maintaining the same quality. We are very close to 10k users so reducing bandwidth costs will be key to maintaining sustainable project.
The new servers should also let us add more nodes to our kubernetes cluster as well as better remote management. The most tangible benefit of this will be improved reliability.