Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on YouTube?

Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by dylan604 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:01PM (#42951543)

> But running a CDN at that scale is gonna require experience and truck load of money

Take Netflix for example. Their CDN at scale is pretty good for VOD type of delivery, but they continue to get it wrong for live event streaming. Even Twit..er, X falls down with their large event live streaming.

Adding the "live" component makes everything just that much harder

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by ta1243 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:08PM (#42952651)

> they continue to get it wrong for live event streaming

And truly live (which means probably under 10 seconds from lens to viewer - i.e. the time it takes for the "X win" notification to pop up on your phone) is even harder than traditional "live" in the 40-60 second window.

Ideally you want all viewer to view it at the same time (so when next-door are cheering on a feed 3 seconds ahead of you it's not spoilt).

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by Jakob on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:46PM (#42953224)

It’s actually not harder thanks to HLS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Live streaming with HLS is equal to distributing static files and can be very low latency.

If you need to go below 3s of latency, yes it becomes harder, but everything else is thankfully solved.

The bigger issue with live streaming are the peaks: 0 views in one second and millions in the next. Even with static content delivery that leads to all kinds of issues.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by dylan604 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:22PM (#42954569)

> but everything else is thankfully solved.

well, since it's so easy for you, you should apply at Netflix as they can't figure it out.

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