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by vachina 831 days ago
The ISPs are throttling UDP traffic. In my country they’re known to work with local TV provider to block or cripple streams.
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toast0 831 days ago
A service I am aware of has HTTP streams. Video on Demand streams are rate limited by the server to a fixed rate, which is sometimes significantly under the peak bitrate of the file; and the recommended player device doesn't have a large enough buffer for that.

That's 100% a service provider issue.

Live streams have some issues too, but I haven't debugged those. On the other hand, ESPN+ live streams aren't exactly five nines of quality either.

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milankragujevic 831 days ago
The pirate IPTV streams are not UDP, they’re HLS vis HTTPS. Often behind Cloudflare.
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eppp 831 days ago
Not on my side. We dont throttle anything.
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CuriousCosmic 831 days ago
How is that going to work with QUIC?
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