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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by nine_k on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:36AM (#41139742)
Adaptive bitrate selection seems important if your clients have narrow or unstable bandwidth (e.g. mobile), or when you may get constrained by outgoing bandwidth (/. effect aka HN crowd).
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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by sulandor on Saturday August 03, 2024 @04:54AM (#41145457)
imo this is mainly due to the constraint of keeping clientside pre-buffering as low as possible.

sending the whole file at network-speed usually works fine, but maybe uneconomical at scale especially if coupled with users that skip a lot and tend to not watch the whole thing anyway.

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