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This is such bullshit! YouTube’s video streaming infra is a masterpiece of engineering and magnitudes of order better than a vanilla streaming setup! You migh

• darkpuma 8y ago
  To provide people with poor internet connections with effective access to videos, youtube transcodes videos to various qualities. That's not cheap, but neither is it magic.
  • rock_hard 8y ago
    That’s a simplification of what’s actually happening and how well their implementation works though. Just travel to a third world country and look at how poorly other video services like Facebook, Vimeo, etc perform in comparison. There is some good posts from John Harding out there that get into the details