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I doubt they will do this because they serve custom ads to each user, and to split and merge video files is considerably less efficient than just loading differ
by thatcat 10y ago
I doubt they will do this because they serve custom ads to each user, and to split and merge video files is considerably less efficient than just loading different files.
- Something1234 10y agoCan't some video formats be concatenated? Something like this pipeline for serving the ad: cat $(select_ad_file $user) $video_file
- thatcat 10y agoI know ffmpeg can do that, i've never tried just using cat. An additional reason for not serving ads in the video file is that their ad clients probably want to know if someone watched it or not. By loading ad as a file associated with the ad client it's easy to verify that someone watched the ad and didn't just click out after 1s, etc.
- NTripleOne 10y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted when that's entirely true; knowing what audience has actually engaged with your ad can be just as (if not moreso) valuable as an engagement in the first place.