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by Calwestjobs 427 days ago
mpeg stream / TS filetype / DVB-T/C/S broadcast IS static file, all 3 is same format, this format deals with every point you made... download specs and educate yourself.

same with streaming audio, chunk IS static file, so every phone call you made last 30 years is static file.
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bawolff 426 days ago
The issue is not how the bits are divided into packets (or "files") but how those packets are distributed/used.

Obviously at the end of the day its a string of bytes, like everything is, the difference i'm trying to get at is differences in how the data is used and requested.

Its more a social difference not a technical one.

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Calwestjobs 427 days ago
and there is no reason for bittorrent to not being able to send/download 3000 TS chunks / static files for 3 hour movie in sequential order.

and no reason for your MPV/VLC/PotPlayer to not render that in sequential order.

even when you have only first 2 pieces.

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imtringued 427 days ago
The word "file" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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Calwestjobs 426 days ago
what is difference what kind of data chunk it is? 0 difference. or for university educated - he introduced file as a helpful abstraction, so i work with that abstraction, if you say it is not good abstraction then tell him. calling ts file a file is absolutely correct in any sense of word. just to be thorough. in philosophical debate we are having in computer science. ( yes toxic sarcasm )

that one post is more to the topic of OP is asking for, than 90% of comments here.

again NEWS, movies, comedy, trumps tarrifs, are streamed digitally to bilions of people over dvb-t/c/s every day. if how are bits ordered/chunked is important for you that much, that this already working system is not good for you in that sense ? makes no sense.

or explain little more, one sentence explaining whole world is k12 like. or 42 for book readers.

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bawolff 426 days ago
I'm using "static file" to mean something pre-recorded that even if users will view in order, they will likely start at different times, so different users will be viewing different parts of it.

In contrast to a live stream where everyone is viewing the same part at the same time, and once that part passes nobody is likely to view the old part ever again.

This makes a big difference in terms of network design.

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Calwestjobs 425 days ago
yes so makes no difference if it is file "without end" (pipe essentially) or bunch of TS files.
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