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Re:The Short Case for Nvidia Stock by hedgehog on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:32PM (#42843529)
Yes, I think most video on the Internet is HLS and similar approaches which are about as far from the ATM circuit-switching approach as it gets. For those unfamiliar HLS is pretty much breaking the video into chunks to download over plain HTTP.
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Re:The Short Case for Nvidia Stock by matt-attack on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:14PM (#42854921)
Yes, but that's entirely orthogonal to the "coding" algorithms being used and which are specifically responsible for the improvement that GP was describing.

HLS is really just a way to empower the client with the ownership of the playback logic. Let the client handle forward buffering, retries, stream selection, etc.

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