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Okay, I'm stumped. Why do we need a "seek-friendly video encoder", which will compromise video quality and file size, when DASH and HLS define seeking in a more
by eropple 4y ago
Okay, I'm stumped. Why do we need a "seek-friendly video encoder", which will compromise video quality and file size, when DASH and HLS define seeking in a more flexible and effective way that also allows for adaptive streaming and content steering than "range requests for a multi-gigabyte file" ever will be?
- teddyh 4y agoSure, if the indexing can be handled out-of-band to enable more efficient video encoding, then do that. But this means that the media is no longer a single stream of bytes, which complicates things. It’s always simpler, and therefore better, to have media self-contained in a single file of bytes.