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0 pointspgrote10y ago0 comments

Why the difference in price? Is the bandwidth more expensive or is it people will pay for a higher def stream?

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MPetitt10y ago· 7 in thread

Definitely bandwidth, HD video is much larger and more difficult to stream than SD.

gravypod10y ago

How are you doing the streaming? I've done some work on my end for a media streamer a friend and I wrote for out NASs.

We can stream 1080p quite easily to our mobile devices from a home internet connection over a cell phone 4g plan.

My friend settled on VP9 but I was using plain MP4s. VP9 in my experience, if you have money, is the way to go. I'd setup an S3 bucket with all of my home videos and do an AWS lambda to transcode it when I finally find a job.

I don't know how well this falls into your use case because you, I assume, need DRM but I'm sure you can still find a way to do it with HTML5.

I'm really interested in your product and think I may buy it.

MPetitt10y ago

We actually wrote a blog post about it here, let us know what you think! https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...

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ninjakeyboard10y ago

Video streamed through the internet is generally not just MP4 in a muxed container but some form of multi-bitrate adaptive stream that deals with smaller segments of content. Eg see Apple's HTTP Live Streaming or MPEG Dash.

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pgroteOP10y ago

Thanks for the reply.

Here is the case study limelight has:

http://img03.en25.com/Web/LLNW/%7B95f3b395-f77e-4642-bc09-aa...

I missed the connection to the Discovery Channel founder the first time around.

Again, thanks for answering the question and pointing to the medium post.

rocky113810y ago

Thanks for providing the SD option. I don't care about HD and would gladly save the money.

ninjakeyboard10y ago

"more difficult to stream"

please describe?

MPetitt10y ago

Well when we say "more difficult to stream", we really mean more difficult to stream WELL. With a larger file you are inherently prone to longer start times, more buffering, and therefore a worse user experience. That's when you start having to add CDN's, better caching, and better encoding. The vast majority of people out there barely have the bandwidth to stream HD under perfect conditions. We always have to make sure we aren't the bottleneck.

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8 comments · 1 top-level

MPetitt10y ago· 7 in thread

Definitely bandwidth, HD video is much larger and more difficult to stream than SD.

gravypod10y ago

How are you doing the streaming? I've done some work on my end for a media streamer a friend and I wrote for out NASs.

We can stream 1080p quite easily to our mobile devices from a home internet connection over a cell phone 4g plan.

I don't know how well this falls into your use case because you, I assume, need DRM but I'm sure you can still find a way to do it with HTML5.

I'm really interested in your product and think I may buy it.

MPetitt10y ago

We actually wrote a blog post about it here, let us know what you think! https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...

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ninjakeyboard10y ago

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pgroteOP10y ago

Thanks for the reply.

Here is the case study limelight has:

http://img03.en25.com/Web/LLNW/%7B95f3b395-f77e-4642-bc09-aa...

I missed the connection to the Discovery Channel founder the first time around.

Again, thanks for answering the question and pointing to the medium post.

rocky113810y ago

Thanks for providing the SD option. I don't care about HD and would gladly save the money.

ninjakeyboard10y ago

"more difficult to stream"

please describe?

MPetitt10y ago

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