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They actually don't use HTTP, they use RTMP, try it yourself: Load up a Youtube video and scrub to the middle of the video. It will load to that very point even
by camwest 17y ago
They actually don't use HTTP, they use RTMP, try it yourself: Load up a Youtube video and scrub to the middle of the video. It will load to that very point even if it hasn't buffered that far yet.
- kierank 17y agoThey use HTTP with an addition in their servers similar to this plugin: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac http://h264.code-shop.com/trac to do HTTP scrubbing. Google also used Akamai for its Google Live broadcast which indicated that their network couldn't do RTMP (at the time).