bpa wrote: > As I understand it, a good reason is to get away from "rebuffering" > (which users hate) - HLS/HDS/DASH all allow for changing bitrates while > a stream is playing so if backbone network gets overloaded or just the > user home wifi gets slow - the server will be able to choose to send a > slower bit rate audio stream fragement for the duration of the overload > so eliminate/minimise "rebuffering". It will also probably enable > servers to be more efficient. Side effect is that audio quality could > vary during a live transmission - that'll be the issue BBC has to get > right.
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