The fact that the media streaming space is so challenging is supremely frustrating to me. Encoding/decoding aside as codecs are understandably challenging, end

The fact that the media streaming space is so challenging is supremely frustrating to me. Encoding/decoding aside as codecs are understandably challenging, end-to-end latency is basically a nightmare even at scale (I feel like I’ve tried every one-to-many video streaming apps starting with Periscope, and I have yet to see one with less than 15s latency from broadcaster to recipient) As well, viewer sync seems to either be a “problem” no one wants to “solve”, or it’s in the realm of magic. Plex clients even report their playback position every second or less and yet the variation on the “watch together” feature is all over the place. We also now have PTP which feels like a perfect fit for “clock” synchronization, but I have yet to see a single streaming technology use it or anything close to it.