Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by erichocean on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:52PM
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It has to do with not having edge nodes. In theory, Cloudflare is in a good position to address this disparity…
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by Everlag on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:30PM
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My team agrees with you :)
https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/
Happy to take any critique y'all may have.
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by 867-5309 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:35AM
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hello, can your service handle live streams (HLS/DASH) or is it just for static streams? many thanks
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by Everlag on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:20PM
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Stream currently supports VOD delivered over HLS/DASH. We'd like to explore live in the future.
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by rasz on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:24AM
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You skipped the most popular video serving platforms - pr0n companies. Also no problems there, everything works smoothly.
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by ksec on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:31AM
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Yes. Not only that but fast forward, backwards, skipping. Crash with Javascript. High CPU loading because some other JS is messing with the Video in a way that shouldn't be. etc etc.
Someone on HN asked me what's wrong with HTML5 video. I forgot to reply as I was gathering examples and informations.
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by selfhoster11 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:48AM
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News sites are notoriously resource-heavy. Small blogs have no issue with embedded <video> tag videos.
A lot of times video struggles to start, buffers for a long time, stutters, .... I'm not talking about small blogs, but about sites like CNN, WaPo, ...