
SCALER POD 07 ft. Akash Saxena, CTO, Hotstar | Cricket, Managing Scale and Future of OTT Platforms
Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast
Video Streaming Is So Complex
The latencies are a lot more if you do with a look back because they will be creating the buffer real time at that time. But then that is challenging versus like say YouTube does not have a look back at all for live events. There was this Twitter meme that used to go around, which really bothered me: "Hot star fans and about a minute or later hot star fans" That was the level of latency. Now inherently, OTT is latent; there's nothing, you know, cable TV is the fastest in that sense. So fundamentally looking at that and just doing that fundamental improved as well.
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