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How do videos switch between low and high qualities so seamlessly?

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Question0 May 26, 2019 1 Comment

How do videos switch between low and high qualities so seamlessly?

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mizi359 commented May 26, 2019

Most site do not serve whole video file.

Video is split on many chunks and when need different resolution the new chunk is loaded.

you can read about HLS / DASH for streaming

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