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by giantrobot 1471 days ago
An HLS segment can carry any number of GOPs. A GOP length of FPS/2 or FPS/4 will get you an I-frame pretty quickly allowing the GOP to be decoded. MPEG-DASH can do the same IIRC. So there doesn't need to be a segment length delay in playback and typically is not.