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by oaththrowaway 578 days ago
I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.
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taeric 578 days ago
Not really a joke, though? VOD has obvious methods to cheat a bit. Redundancy abounds and you can even network shape for costs. Could probably get even better compression for clear reasons.

Live, not so much. One source that you have to fanout from and absolutely no way to get cheap redundancy. Right?

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oaththrowaway 577 days ago
Yes, of course but it was still a cope because we never saw more than maybe 3M concurrent viewers at a time
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