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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by rektide on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:08AM (#31134889)
why stream on demand if we have the bandwidth to just send the whole video in the first 100ms? this might actually save power; instead of back & forth back & forth with the service, we can transmitnthe whole thing & be done, the server can now go serve other people.
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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by rootusrootus on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:16AM (#31134954)
> why stream on demand if we have the bandwidth to just send the whole video in the first 100ms?

Probably the best argument would be that many/most? people don't watch the whole video.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by JaimeThompson on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:13AM (#31134927)
I can't find it right now but I remember reading a paper by Cerf? (I'm not great with names) that detailed such a concept. If I remember it I will edit and post a link.
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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by mrkstu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:13AM (#31134930)
Because then you have to cache the whole thing to disk, probably SSD, and increase the wear rate there unnecessarily...
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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by charcircuit on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:21PM (#31137510)
SSD wear rate is not a concern
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