# ECP-0007: Tauri + Dioxus viewer bridge

Status: Draft

## Problem

We need a macOS-ready viewer so we can watch every.channel streams while MoQ playback matures.

## Decision

Ship an embedded Dioxus web frontend inside a Tauri shell. The viewer lists generic stream descriptors (no HDHomeRun-specific UI) and plays a selected stream via a local HTTP bridge.

The bridge:

- Spawns ffmpeg to transcode a stream URL into short CMAF-style HLS segments (fMP4).
- Serves the generated playlist and segments from a local HTTP server.
- Returns a playback URL to the frontend.

This preserves the stream abstraction while providing a pragmatic playback path on macOS (WebKit/HLS).

## Alternatives considered

- Wait for MoQ playback: rejected for now because it blocks local iteration.
- Native AVFoundation player: deferred to keep UI portable and simple.

## Rollout / teardown

- Implement `list_streams` + `start_stream` commands in the Tauri backend.
- Add Dioxus frontend with channel list and player.
- Replace the HLS bridge with MoQ playback when the transport stack stabilizes.