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0 pointsoaththrowaway1y ago0 comments

I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.

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Not really a joke, though? VOD has obvious methods to cheat a bit. Redundancy abounds and you can even network shape for costs. Could probably get even better compression for clear reasons.

Live, not so much. One source that you have to fanout from and absolutely no way to get cheap redundancy. Right?

oaththrowawayOP1y ago

Yes, of course but it was still a cope because we never saw more than maybe 3M concurrent viewers at a time

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0 pointsoaththrowaway1y ago0 comments

I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.

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taeric1y ago

Not really a joke, though? VOD has obvious methods to cheat a bit. Redundancy abounds and you can even network shape for costs. Could probably get even better compression for clear reasons.

Live, not so much. One source that you have to fanout from and absolutely no way to get cheap redundancy. Right?

oaththrowawayOP1y ago

Yes, of course but it was still a cope because we never saw more than maybe 3M concurrent viewers at a time

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