Posts tagged HLS
How HTTP Live Streaming works under the hood: manifests, segments, adaptive bitrate and playback. 5 posts so far.
Posts tagged HLS
Simulating a streaming stack
Three labs model the three shapes video delivery actually takes: a VOD chain, a live ingest path, and the edge network underneath both.
Cross-origin isolation and video on the same page
Cross-origin isolation buys a document SharedArrayBuffer, and in return every cross-origin video, image and segment it loads has to opt in.
Five courses, one path through video delivery
FFmpeg, HLS, DASH and WebRTC solve different problems in the same pipeline, and BeemMeUp teaches them in the order the dependency actually runs.
Where video transcoding should run
Transcoding is CPU-bound and long-running, which is exactly the shape of job a serverless function is built to refuse.
How an HLS stream is put together
An HLS stream is a tree of playlists pointing at segments, and what a segment can tell you on its own depends on the container format underneath it.