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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zbobet2012 on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:30AM (#19998744)
It's terrible performance on a power limited devices. It either burns up your battery or is unreasonably slow. Particularly when the source stream is high resolution or complexity.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by Rychard on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:41AM (#19998787)
Sure, but if you have the file, you could generate these ahead of time on a more powerful machine.

At any rate, I don't think users would balk at being given a choice.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by afiori on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:15AM (#19999798)
> You could of course build a "file based" implementation that had all of these features, but you would just be rebuilding DASH or HLS.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by auggierose on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:43AM (#19999675)
Yeah, but would they pay for it?
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