Remove service worker dependency

[boushley]

I think this is a great idea to provide a fallback for Media Source Extensions. Thanks for putting this concept out there!

I am interested in why we need the Service Worker dependency?

If you look at browser support for MSE and the browser support for Service Workers I'm not sure what browsers this is beneficial for. Are there any browsers that don't have MSE that support Service Workers?

Since the service worker requirement makes this apply to such a small subset of browsers, what is the goal of this library?

[AxelDelmas]

Hi! We're using Web Workers, not service workers.
These are used for performance reasons, and would work onIE11 on windows 7, which does not have MSE.
And historically we used this polyfill in FF when it did not have MSE.

The workers are used for base 64 encoding to pass the data to Flash. A solution to be compatible with browsers that don't have Web Workers is to treat the data in small chunks in the main thread, so that the browser is not blocked from displaying new frames.

[boushley]

Thanks for the clarification!

That's a significant difference in browser support :)