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I'd be interested in finding out what happens when I press the thumbs down/up icon on Netflix, because the match ratings that are displayed to me seem to have nothing to do with either my ratings or with my watching history.
Many of the things Netflix does here google does too and has been doing for a long time like GGC (Google Global Cache) for free at ISP NOC or datacenters - their GGC nodes are many orders of magnitude time is distribution. 90% of the Google traffic through these devices are youtube videos. They mention it in the article like Netflix pioneered this idea with open-connect. If anything it's harder to get OC devices from…
That sounds a bit like a violation of net neutrality avant la lettre.
I know what it does when I don't press play: fills my memory with a boatload of bloated interface that has the shittiest navigation of any media player I've ever used. And I still can't just view a list of all series/movies by date.
Which media player has an interface you like? I'm usually an outcast for it, but I actually like the iTunes Movies interface myself.
I feel bit sorry for Netflix, for the lengths they have gone to get their high performance/reliable architecture but the clients are still at the mercy of the OS, browsers, CPU (decoding codecs) of-course assuming high speed Internet. From their website - https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 Resolution: Google Chrome Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Up to 1080p on Chrome OS. Internet Explorer up to 1080p. Mic…
Is it browser limitations, or just DRM limitations? Youtube seems to do 4K just fine.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=hevc
Not sure why Chrome doesn't support HW for it though albeit Chrome OS. My Celeron N3060 Chromebook can decode it.
I read Netflix has started using VP9 for streaming, newer CPU's have VP9 decoders in them.
> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers. > Netflix operates in more than 200 countries The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(a…
I feel bit sorry for Netflix, for the lengths they have gone to get their high performance/reliable architecture but the clients are still at the mercy of the OS, browsers, CPU (decoding codecs) of-course assuming high speed Internet. From their website - https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 Resolution: Google Chrome Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Up to 1080p on Chrome OS. Internet Explorer up to 1080p. Mic…
Is it browser limitations, or just DRM limitations? Youtube seems to do 4K just fine.
I know what it does when I don't press play: fills my memory with a boatload of bloated interface that has the shittiest navigation of any media player I've ever used. And I still can't just view a list of all series/movies by date.
Which media player has an interface you like? I'm usually an outcast for it, but I actually like the iTunes Movies interface myself.
I'd be interested in finding out what happens when I press the thumbs down/up icon on Netflix, because the match ratings that are displayed to me seem to have nothing to do with either my ratings or with my watching history.
It records your like/dislike, but it doesn’t distribute the change to its database immediately. Same for YouTube or so many other services.
Unless propagation to their database takes two years, I'm really interested in how they actually arrive at match ratings.
I feel bit sorry for Netflix, for the lengths they have gone to get their high performance/reliable architecture but the clients are still at the mercy of the OS, browsers, CPU (decoding codecs) of-course assuming high speed Internet. From their website - https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 Resolution: Google Chrome Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Up to 1080p on Chrome OS. Internet Explorer up to 1080p. Mic…
Is it browser limitations, or just DRM limitations? Youtube seems to do 4K just fine.