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Video streamed through the internet is generally not just MP4 in a muxed container but some form of multi-bitrate adaptive stream that deals with smaller segmen
by ninjakeyboard 11y ago
Video streamed through the internet is generally not just MP4 in a muxed container but some form of multi-bitrate adaptive stream that deals with smaller segments of content. Eg see Apple's HTTP Live Streaming or MPEG Dash.
- MPetitt 11y agoExactly, we did a whole post about it here https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-streaming-service-4e8d9f7308cd#.g1r699gwu https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...
- gravypod 11y agoYea I understand that. My comment is more about how it's possible that HD streaming would cost that much more. I've been able to do it at a bitrate that is acceptable over a crappy network. I'd say that I'm not very smart and that a group of well-paid engineers should be able to do better than that. If the cost is just "because people will pay that much more for it" then that is fine but as it rests right now it is because "the bandwidth would cost that much more"
- MPetitt 11y agoA lot of the problem comes with A: High Quality B: High Scale C: Consistent quality internationally Properly encoded HD video is still easily 4 times larger than the SD equivalent, so that leads to 4 times the bandwidth costs.