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Netflix puts flat MP4s on the CDN, the segments all reference different offsets within the MP4.
by Retr0id 9mo ago
Netflix puts flat MP4s on the CDN, the segments all reference different offsets within the MP4.
- coppsilgold 9mo agoHave you inspected the contents of their CDN servers? Because assembling an mp4 on the fly from segments is not difficult. Especially if they condition them to have identical sizes.
- Retr0id 9mo agoI have indeed inspected the contents of their CDN servers. The URLs have an auth token in them but you can edit the range parameters to grab the whole mp4 in one go without invalidating the auth.
- coppsilgold 9mo agoThen this is either an exploit or more likely the mp4 file is virtual. You can find out if you are so inclined by grabbing it from two separate accounts using two separate devices (or keys) and then compare how many of the segments are identical. Also, I assume the file in question is 4K content. Don't know about how they treat other types.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThe normal way to do it would be to deliver different byte ranges per user