[ritikm]

We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.

[silverbax88]

How is this different than adaptive streaming?

[manishsharan]

If you are using FFMPEG for this, would you care to share your hack ?

[hack_edu]

One hopes Box didn't acquire a company with only a beta-invite product for simply their ffmpeg one-liners...