Does viewing livestreams consume more data than doing so with a normal video?

Question

Let’s say both the livestream and the video are viewed in 480p. How much data would be consumed in 1 hour for each?

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Answer 1

Generally speaking there’s no difference, as the data needs to get to your computer one way or another. However, non-live videos may benefit from slightly better compression, since the compression algorithm can look at the whole file and optimize based on that.