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by bobdvb 3y ago
The block cipher used on broadcast doesn't have a big impact. People have been doing encryption on pay TV broadcasting for decades. There's also plenty of error correction, often 25% of the broadcast feed data is ECC.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
It's hard from a caching perspective. Playing the segments you either need to explicitly define all the files you download in the manifest, which is inefficient. Or you need to have a segment template which defines a formula for the se
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by bobdvb 3y ago
The film industry should stop using 24fps, it's a waste of people's time and energy. At least they should move to 25fps which is what most of the world uses as a frame rate, if not 30fps. For the stupid North American non-integer
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by bobdvb 3y ago
There are several studies which say that viewer emotional engagement caps out at 1080p, and the only thing that drives more engagement beyond 1080p is HDR/WCG and HFR. Customers are also not as willing to pay for 4k as those invested i
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by bobdvb 3y ago
They don't offer a better service, they offer a cheaper service (because they run a worse offering without any content production costs) and they don't offer geographic restrictions (which are not the fault of the streaming servic
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Exact numbers, I can't easily give, but I will breakdown the process and some of the scale. Setting aside distribution which is a common problem between illegal and legal streaming. Production for legal streaming costs thousands of dol
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by bobdvb 3y ago
If the ad revenue isn't measured in terms of the consumption on the pirate streams then it's not ad revenue. Advertisers don't pay for eyeballs they can't quantify. If content is consumed via an illegal streaming site th
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by bobdvb 3y ago
It's also an FU to people like me who work on the legal side of streaming. My work is devalued and my efforts are stolen by pirates for their own profit. They get the privilege of profiting from the streams we make which requires massi
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I work in the tech side of a sports streaming company. A quoted statistic from a study that was made a few years ago suggests that around 30% of people consuming pirate content are "pay never". We've done some exercises that
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by bobdvb 3y ago
There are lots of methods that pirates use, their websites are an absolute nightmare to navigate sometimes and you can't be sure that the link you're clicking on is an ad, an extra referral hop, an embed, or the actual video. Ther
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by bobdvb 3y ago
People used their service to run the illegal streams and then didn't pay for it. Or they abused a free trial credits and MUX got a takedown notice, so someone used their service for free and they got a bad rep for it. As a side note, a
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by bobdvb 3y ago
That's not correct, there's no time allowance to remove. What there is, from the person issuing the DMCA, is two weeks before you can start legal proceedings. You could argue that this means that you don't have to act for two
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I work for a streaming service and we deliver to Germany, we have pre-rolls before any ad-break which say "Werbung" to mark the entry to an ad break (and I think another marker on the exit of an ad). Interestingly, we do sports an
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I love taunting people by saying: "It's all just Vines"
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by bobdvb 4y ago
It's saying that you can limit a DDoS which is harming your network but you can't limit non-malicious traffic.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
It's often UDP/RTP delivery with SAP/SDP for announcement/discovery, then you use an IGMP join to attach to the stream. The important thing about why you'd use IGMP Multicast instead of unicast is that you get a mor
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by bobdvb 4y ago
You know that Wagner group, Russia's private mercenaries leading the charge in Bahkmut are run by neo Nazi's don't you? The whole "we're saving them from the Nazi's" was a constructed lie to sell to the ig
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Decoding the video involves hardware acceleration, so data is not just processed at the application layer, it's passed much deeper. In very specific and rare attacks, it's been possible to bypass application and even OS level prot
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by bobdvb 4y ago
They already tried it and it didn't go well. I remember it because I had a meeting with the man who was running the trial service. Granted this was a few years ago now, but you also have to remember that "the BBC" isn't
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Correct, although if the content origin is on one continent and the consumers on the other continent, then you do need to shift at least a replica of that content across the ocean (then use a local CDN for national/regional delivery).
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Anyone serving anything publicly should be using a CDN for binary objects like images, videos, downloads, etc. That's why CDN plugins are among the most popular downloads for WordPress. If you mean "without a CDN", then as so
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I believe some people do it to avoid the temptation. Perhaps they feel they lack the self-control?
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by bobdvb 4y ago
https://awesome.video is the definitive link resource and is used by people who do it professionally. Alternatively: https://github.com/Eyevinn/streaming-onboarding
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by bobdvb 4y ago
The world has changed dramatically in the past 60 years. Cell phones to smart phones, medical imaging (e.g. MRI scans, ultrasound imaging), information processing and storage, genetic engineering, quantum computing, fibre optic communicatio
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Research says that 30% of pirate consumers are "pay never" and couldn't be convinced to watch legitimate streams. I recall when we did a boxing match and made it available free, you could sign up for a free trial and then can
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Except all that money is part of the leagues themselves, I', confident we'd happily pay less for the rights. Ultimately as a platform we're trying to charge as little as possible to capture the largest audience, there's
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I'll stand out here, because I work for a major sports streaming service. So let me be heard about live streaming at least: 1) Content needs to get paid for, if you're watching an illegally restreamed match then you're not re
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by bobdvb 4y ago
https://twitter.com/timse7/status/1609862090054828033 There's recent IEEE research which shows that 8K is useless, there's also a stack of other well founded research which shows that viewer engagement o
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by bobdvb 4y ago
One of the problems with Anycast is that you can get inconsistencies in the responses because you're potentially hitting multiple servers with different RTTs. So you'd want to ensure they're a higher Stratum number than your
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I think hard coding IPs is generally a bad idea, it might work for one or two users, but if this became standard practice then it would cause issues. I think it would be saner to say "if you don't have valid time (e.g. less than s

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