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by hoffcoder 3616 days ago
I think the author has not thought of frame reordering in error scenarios. If UDP is used, frames could even get dropped in the middle, and in case of TCP, frames could arrive out of order. That would wreck havoc in the odd-odd numbering sequence of the encoding.
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Tornado codes to the rescue, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_code

Afaik, YouTube streams over TCP.