Limiting to HTML5 videos is going to be a very light. Or they will re-implement all the media center and multimedia code themselves, supporting all codecs and f

Limiting to HTML5 videos is going to be a very light. Or they will re-implement all the media center and multimedia code themselves, supporting all codecs and formats (and subtitles)? Generally on Smart TV's the video decoding isn't handled by the browser/render, instead handled by the underlying media player and hardware decoder. Pretty much all the TVs (Samsung, LG etc) use HTML5 video with much wider support for codecs then you see in browsers. HLS/H.264 is commonly supported. Similarly they tend to use mechanisms such as custom plugins and JavaScript interfaces for DLNA/SMB etc. Not sure why you need threads in particular, there's already a lot of JavaScript mechanisms (events, async calls) to support these types of features.