Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers
by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:00AM
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I do remember someone mentioning at some point that most video codecs were never intended for realtime streaming. That was in a blurb for a new video codec intended for streaming though, iirc in the context of video conferencing. Might be related, I'm not sure.
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Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers
by rbultje on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:20AM
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It's not related. Companies like Youtube and Google don't do real-time encoding of their video streams, they encode "offline" (= prior) and stream the already-encoded video many times. So real-time'ness of video codecs is not relevant to this topic.
Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers
by JimmyAustin on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:17AM
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In that context it was because most video algorithms are designed to chunk, which reduces bandwidth at the cost of increasing latency. That's a good trade off for Youtube, but not as good in a real time scenario like video conferencing.