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During streaming, lower res image frames are sent, to avoid buffering as much as possible, depending on your internet speed the res increases or decreases When

During streaming, lower res image frames are sent, to avoid buffering as much as possible, depending on your internet speed the res increases or decreases When you stop the frame, the video can download the highest res version without any problem, so you get crystal clear glimpse when paused, but blurry images when film is rolling.

metadat 3y ago
> When you stop the frame, the video can download the highest res version without any problem, so you get crystal clear glimpse when paused, but blurry images when film is rolling. If this were the case, when the player is paused and the "higher resolution frame" downloaded, there would be a discernable delay due to network and download latency, which I'm 100% certain is not the case. Pause any YT video and it is instantaneous with no perceivable delay or jank. Edit: @teitoklien thank you for the correction about Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, I've removed this part of my reply so as to not spread misinformation. Sorry for any confusion!
- teitoklien 3y ago
  Um, no. You are wrong Look into Adaptive Bitrate Streaming [0]. From what I’ve read HLS does work this way, when combined with Adaptive Bitrate streaming, the segment files are swapped midway depending on user device and connection quality (with each video segment being kept encoded at various qualities to change between as connection quality varies) The screenshot thing is a fair question tho, why pausing leads to higher res. I think some players, do it custom, for User Experience, so that they can produce clean screenshots on pausing. I’ve seen YouTube do it for sure. But for you’re main point, you’re objectively wrong, adaptive bit rates and swappable segment files are a thing. Edit: (Don’t worry about it, being wrong is good hehe, i was wrong 7 times today while doing my work, helped me learn new things 3 out of those times, you helped me question myself and look back at my knowledge too, it’s been dusty for a while. Have a great day!) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming

metadat 3y ago

> When you stop the frame, the video can download the highest res version without any problem, so you get crystal clear glimpse when paused, but blurry images when film is rolling. If this were the case, when the player is paused and the "higher resolution frame" downloaded, there would be a discernable delay due to network and download latency, which I'm 100% certain is not the case. Pause any YT video and it is instantaneous with no perceivable delay or jank. Edit: @teitoklien thank you for the correction about Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, I've removed this part of my reply so as to not spread misinformation. Sorry for any confusion!

teitoklien 3y ago
Um, no. You are wrong Look into Adaptive Bitrate Streaming [0]. From what I’ve read HLS does work this way, when combined with Adaptive Bitrate streaming, the segment files are swapped midway depending on user device and connection quality (with each video segment being kept encoded at various qualities to change between as connection quality varies) The screenshot thing is a fair question tho, why pausing leads to higher res. I think some players, do it custom, for User Experience, so that they can produce clean screenshots on pausing. I’ve seen YouTube do it for sure. But for you’re main point, you’re objectively wrong, adaptive bit rates and swappable segment files are a thing. Edit: (Don’t worry about it, being wrong is good hehe, i was wrong 7 times today while doing my work, helped me learn new things 3 out of those times, you helped me question myself and look back at my knowledge too, it’s been dusty for a while. Have a great day!) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming