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Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a... by dbrueck on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:17AM (#36666816)
> Splitting thousands of hours of video into 1-2s chunks, uploading them to s3

Eh, that's a separate thing - that's how modern streaming works, i.e. it's what allowed streaming to become really, really good, and it's how pretty much every major streaming platform works today.

Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a... by dylan604 on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:27AM (#36666954)
Serving an HLS segmented file is not the same as doing the processing work that enables a good transcode to that HLS.
Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a... by dbrueck on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:32AM (#36667899)
Sorry, who is saying those two are the same?