The only way to play HLS on iOS browsers is with Apple's HLS, which means you have no control over the bandwidth switching. TikTok does some really advanced stuff where they preload not the entire video, but just like the beginning of each video for like the next 10 or 20 videos in the feed. It feels like this kind of streaming-based video is really the only way to do video nowadays. The thing about video and the thing that for me was a learning was like video is expensive.
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dylan Jhaveri about his work at Mux, how Mux ingests and spits out video, and where Mux fits in a tech stack for developers working with video and audio.
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