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Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by aslkdjaslkdj on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:22PM (#16644585)
Wanting to do targeting for the specific user makes that really hard. They would have to do real-time transcoding of the ad into the video. Makes more sense to transcode the video once at upload then dynamically insert just the ad.
Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by hollerith on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:31AM (#16646837)
Youtube controls the client, so they could switch to a format (a brand-new format if necessary) that makes it computationally cheap to catenate videos.