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+## Stremio shell: new gen
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+A Windows-only shell using WebView2 and MPV
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+Goals:
+* Performance
+* Reliability
+* Easy to ship
+
+In all three, this architecture excels the [Qt-based shell](https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-shell): it is about 2-5x more efficient depending on the use case, as it allows MPV to render directly in the window through it's optimal video output rather than using libmpv to integrate with Qt.
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+This is due to Qt having a complex rendering pipeline involving ANGLE and multiple levels of composing and drawing to textures, which inhibits full HW acceleration.
+
+Meanwhile in this setup MPV uses whichever pipeline it considers to be optimal (like the mpv desktop app), which is normally d3d11, allowing full HW acceleration.
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+For web rendering, we use the native WebView2, which is Chromium based but shipped as a part of Windows 10: therefore we do not need to ship our own "distribution" of Chromium.
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+Finally, this should be a lot more reliable as it uses a much simper and more native overall architecture.