Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Post by MBCook » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2:05 AM UTC

MattDaEskimo wrote: post #742

devit wrote: post #730

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Why is live a lot harder? Aside from latency (which isn't much of a problem unless you are competing with TV or some other distribution system), it seems easier than on-demand, since you send the same data to everyone and don't need to handle having a potentially huge library in all datacenters (you have to distribute the data, but that's just like having an extra few users per server). My guess is that the problem w…

I'm not an expert in this, but at least familiar with the trade. I'd imagine with on-demand services you already have the full content and therefore can use algorithms to compress frames and perform all kinds of neat tricks to. With live streaming I'd imagine a lot of these algorithms are useless as there isn't enough delay & time to properly use them, so they're required to stream every single pixel and maybe some J…

Post by MBCook » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2:06 AM UTC

wavesounds wrote: post #686

kelvie wrote: post #674

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The Games Awards claims to have 118 million livestreams [1], and went off without a hitch. I watched it for the game trailers, actually shocked that it's also superbowl viewership territory. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/game-awards-2023-break...

"The festivities were streamed live from the Peacock Theater in L.A. across more than 30 platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok Live, X (Twitter), Steam, WeChat, Bilibili, Huya, DouYu, Xiaohongshu and Instagram Live"

Post by MBCook » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2:09 AM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #723

cabinguy wrote: post #719

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I assume you know the answer to your questions is: of course they do. However, I’m in the same boat as you. The joke’s on us, I guess.

I guess my question is: why? "Cable boxes" are uniformly awful to use in my experience. The UI is clunky, they take up space and it's another remote and another tangle of wires to try to hide. What advantage do they offer in 2024?

Post by lclarkmichalek » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2:13 AM UTC

ryandv wrote: post #756

shermantanktop wrote: post #698

Every time a big company screws up, there are two highly informed sets of people who are guaranteed to be lurking, but rarely post, in a thread like this: 1) those directly involved with the incident, or employees of the same company. They have too much to lose by circumventing the PR machine. 2) people at similar companies who operate similar systems with similar scale and risks. Those people know how hard this is a…

I've noticed this amongst the newer "careerist" sort of software developer who is stumbling into the field for money, as opposed to the obsessive computer geek of yesteryear, who practiced it as a hobby. This character archetype is a transplant, say, less than five years ago from another, often non-technical discipline, and was taught or learned from overly simplistic materials that decry systems programming, or netw…

Post by elcritch » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

geor9e wrote: post #566

softwaredoug wrote: post #495

The way to deal with this is to constantly do live events, and actually build organizational muscle. Not these massive one off events in an area the tech team has no experience in.

They've been doing live events since 2023. But it's hard to be prepared for something that's never been done by anyone before — a superbowl scale event, entirely viewed over the internet. The superbowl gets to offload to cable and over the air. Interestingly, I didn't have any problems with my stream. So it sounds like the bandwidth problems might be localized, perhaps by data center or ISP.