Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by duskwuff on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @02:22PM (#8291740)

Twitch uses HLS with a Flash front end. No idea about the others.

HLS is nice because it doesn't require any new servers or protocols -- it uses vanilla HTTP, and can be served up by basically any web server. As a result, it's much easier to make it work with a CDN.

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Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by Kurtz79 on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:24PM (#8292784)

Thanks.

I guess the reason of having such poor support outside Apple browsers, despite the benefits, has to do with licensing issues and the complications of embedding ads, as someone pointed out.

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