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eldod

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    Comment #18402895

    Thanks for noticing! We'll make sure to improve this

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    Comment #18402865

    This is more or less what we do with our our client-side switching solution at Streamroot: we first make sure the user has enough video segments in its buffer, and then we try to g…

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    Comment #18402742

    Both HLS and DASH support redundant streams (by adding a redundant variant URL in the HLS playlist and multiple BaseURLs in the DASH manifest). It's indeed the simplest way to have…

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    Comment #18402664

    Indeed the article is more an introduction to multi-CDN concepts, but take into account that it was written for the HTTP video streaming use-case, and not static content CDNs. A cl…

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    Comment #18402590

    Have to disagree here, you can have very different performances from different CDNs for the same user at the same time. Some CDNs have their own backbone (or at least partially), a…

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    Comment #18400736

    Nikolay from Streamroot.io here, co-author of the article. Yes Conviva provides a service that can give you information about the QoS for the CDN by aggregating data from their cus…

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    Comment #18357203

    Streamroot - P2P, web, backend, media developers and other positions - Paris, France All availables positions here: https://streamroot.io/careers/ By 2021, over 80% of internet tra…

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    Comment #15606129

    Streamroot.io | Backend & System Engineers | Paris, FRANCE | Full-time, on-site At Streamroot, we’re working to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the internet today: th…

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    Streamroot.io | Backend & System Engineers | Paris, FRANCE | Full-time, on-site At Streamroot, we’re working to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the internet today: th…

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    Comment #14444900

    As well as: https://streamroot.io/demo

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    Comment #12018155

    Streamroot | Paris, FRANCE | full-time | onsite | http://www.streamroot.io/jobs Streamroot is developing a p2p-accelerated streaming technology built upon WebRTC, that helps online…

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    Comment #11914584

    This is great news! It will allow to hugely simplify the encoding and distributing workflows, with the same fMP4 segments for HLS, DASH, Smooth...

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    Comment #11201393

    Hey, Nikolay from Streamroot here. We also have whitepapers easily accessible on our website, and a free dashboard where you can test our technology in a few clicks. In terms of op…

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    Comment #11194210

    WebTorrent actually implements the bittorrent protocol, and can be used as a nodejs bittorent client. It extends the bittorent protocol to do p2p sharing inside the browser (but yo…

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    Comment #11071054

    Actually as the article mentions, most broadcasters today are using adaptive bitrate formats like HLS and DASH, that are solving this issue by serving you a bitrate that is low eno…

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    Comment #11071044

    most people probably don't have the patience anymore to just pause and wait 30 minutes until the download is finished. And most of the new modern video players support adaptive bit…

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    Comment #11071034

    It talks about modern streaming indeed, but if you take a closer look, most of the video consumption today is done by streaming: on Desktop you still have a small portions of downl…

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    Comment #11071021

    Very true, bandwidth is very expensive today. Some comments to your post: - Actually, and quite surprisingly, the "cache everything" mode only adds around 25% of used bandwidth in …