Backing up and explaining more for folks who haven't worked with media streaming… (random background: I used to work on all the tech things at Disney+ and Hulu)
When you press "play" in a streaming app, it doesn't just start downloading a big ol' mp4 and slurp that sucker directly into the hardware decoder. There are a huge number of reasons why this doesn't work well (MOV atom anyone?), but one of the most significant is bitrate.
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2023-11-18 23:33:57
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