jb55 on Nostr: BitTorrent is not optimized for video streaming. The best tech for video streaming is ...
BitTorrent is not optimized for video streaming. The best tech for video streaming is Adaptive Bitrate Streaming. Not everyone has the same bandwidth so it doesn’t make sense to have a single bitrate for all connections.
I was actually brainstorming a protocol yesterday that was something like HLS + bittorrent, but it’s a hard problem.
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