MediaRecorder is essential for video encoding. A friend of me had to implement video encoding in JavaScript when he tried out uploading videos to the server. He

MediaRecorder is essential for video encoding. A friend of me had to implement video encoding in JavaScript when he tried out uploading videos to the server. He did something like this: write a video frame to a canvas element, then encode it in JPG and upload that JPG to the server and then make a video out of the JPG frames. Absolutely ludicrous.