Turn the transmuxing worker back off: it is webpack-only

[ralyodio]

Every stream stopped playing after #15. enableWorker: true was copied from media-streamer's live TV player, and it cannot be copied.

Why

mpegts.js builds its worker by stringifying __webpack_modules__ — webpack's internal module registry — in utils/webworkify-webpack.js:

var sources = { main: __webpack_modules__ }
...
var blob = new self.Blob([src], { type: 'text/javascript' })
var worker = new self.Worker(URL.createObjectURL(blob))

That global exists in media-streamer, which is Next.js and therefore webpack. This bundle is built by Bun, where there is no such global, so the worker it assembles is broken.

Why it was silent

Transmuxer does guard it:

if (config.enableWorker && typeof (Worker) !== 'undefined') {
    try { this._worker = work(require.resolve('./transmuxing-worker')); ... }
    catch (error) { /* fallback to inline transmuxing */ }
}

But only a synchronous throw reaches that catch. A Worker that constructs from a blob whose body then fails is an asynchronous failure: nothing throws, nothing falls back, no init segment ever arrives, and the player reports no error at all. Not a dropped frame, not a message the reader can act on — just a channel that does nothing.

Scope of the revert

One line. Everything else in #15 came from the television's profile, which had been running in production for weeks — stash on at 384KB, chasing off, the cleanup bounds, lazyLoad off. enableWorker was the only setting that had never run anywhere except under webpack, which is why it is the only one reverted.

Untouched: the restart-budget fix (refill on playing) that stops streams dying after a minute or two, and fullscreen + sound on Play.

Test

The test that asserted the worker was on now asserts it is off and carries the reason, so nobody re-enables it without first changing how this file is bundled. 939 pass. vendor-mpegts.js rebuilt — enableWorker:!1, no enableWorker:!0.

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