What is HLS (Https Live Streaming), and what can it be used for?
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It’s a way to deliver video, either live video (likes live sports game) or not (like a music video or something from YouTube), over the Internet or any computer network really.
It’s clever because it splits the video up in to small chunks and sends them one by one very quickly and the receiving computer pieces then back together to display the video.
It all happens so quick that if one chunk gets missed, it can be resent without the person watching the video noticing even in a live broadcast (which carry a few seconds delay to allow for this).
It’s also clever because it’s adaptive which means that if the network between the sender and receiver is slow, it can send lower quality video automatically. The video looks worse but will actually play without stuttering out having to stop the video and pick another smaller one.
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