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In Halo Master Chief Collection, viewing any of the video terminals that are scattered throughout the game world would boot you out of the game over to some stu
by wpm 3y ago
In Halo Master Chief Collection, viewing any of the video terminals that are scattered throughout the game world would boot you out of the game over to some stupid app you had to download. When I first came across this I was already mad, but the kicker was that the app would stream the video, these gorgeous, meticulously crafted and headline featured videos, over HLS and the first few dozen seconds of video were always blocky, blurry messes because my internet at the time was rather slow. No option to download all of the videos ahead of time. No option to force video quality to some higher resolution. Just a big blurry mess. So, I skipped that entire feature of the game and figured I'd have to watch them on YouTube later, where I could force it into 1080p and let it buffer a bit.
More annoying even now are the constant "Hey moron, is your video stuttering? Try lowering the quality!" 4head tapping messages I see on Twitch or YouTube when their CDN is taking a shit. I pay good money for 1G/1G symmetric, my PC is 6 feet from my wireless AP. If you can't feed me 6Mbps of live stream at me without stuttering I don't think it's a me problem.
If MoQ means an end to or improvement that terrible ABR experience, it can't come quic enough.
- QuercusMax 3y agoWatching anything on Paramount+ gives me 30 seconds of incredibly awful blocky graphics, then it finally gives me full-resolution high quality. Usually it's just the Paramount+ ads that are this awful, but I really wish there was a way to say "spend 20s buffering so I can watch the whole thing in HQ".