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There is no one "Amazon" here, there are at least 3: * Twitch: Essentially invented live streaming. Fantastic. * Amazon Interactive Video Service [0]: Essenti
by deanCommie 2y ago
There is no one "Amazon" here, there are at least 3:
* Twitch: Essentially invented live streaming. Fantastic.
* Amazon Interactive Video Service [0]: Essentially "Twitch As A Service", built by Twitch engineers. Fantastic.
* Prime Video. Same exact situation as Netflix: original expertise is all in static content. Lots of growing pains with live video and poor reports. But they've figured it out: now there are regular live streams (NHL and NFL), and other channel providers do live streaming on Prime Video as a distribution platform.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
- margaretdouglas 2y agoDoesn't twitch almost fall over (other non-massive streams impacted) when anyone gets close to 4-5m concurrent viewers? I remember last time it happened everything started falling over, even for smaller streams. Even if Netflix struggled with the event, streaming other content worked just fine for me.
- ukuina 2y agoIVS does not scale past 1080p: https://ivs.rocks/ https://ivs.rocks/
- deanCommie 2y ago4K is overrated for streaming. Most people's connections can't handle it so it always ends up getting downscaled. pisses me off. physical media for the win, tho.