4 ms·
kind of? i think this is more about live replication infrastructure than the video carrier itself. with youtube, you can set up some CDNs, but with livestreamin
by zemnmez 7y ago
kind of? i think this is more about live replication infrastructure than the video carrier itself. with youtube, you can set up some CDNs, but with livestreaming you need to be continually ingesting and spitting out content at the same time to lots of places in the world at once
- kd5bjo 7y agoThe video carrier can have a lot of effect over the replication properties, though. HLS is essentially a playlist of video URLs that the client fetches and stitches together, as well as refreshing the playlist to get the names of new chunks. Without an extremely specialized web server, each chink needs to be complete and published before adding it to the playlist, putting a lower bound on the overall latency of the chunk size. RTMP, on the other hand, maintains a live socket between the server and client, and the server can forward each packet as it becomes available.