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Re:A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 by Jonnax on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:17PM (#23585597)
Would you say that QUIC might not be worth it for video content as it's the transferal of large files over the network.

Whilst QUIC shines when you have a lot of small assets that you want to fetch as quickly as possible?

Like could we have a system where we choose http 2 or 3 depending on the type of data?

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Re:A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 by microcolonel on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:05PM (#23589406)
> Would you say that QUIC might not be worth it for video content as it's the transferal of large files over the network. Whilst QUIC shines when you have a lot of small assets that you want to fetch as quickly as possible?

The way video is generally served now is actually as a large number of dynamically-selected chunks of the video and associated audio. QUIC makes perfect sense for YouTube/Netflix/Vimeo type VOD, and especially the MPEG-DASH style of streaming.

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