boem@lemmy.worldcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square420fedilinkarrow-up1630arrow-down123
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minus-squaretomalley8342@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-219 days agoAFAIK there is no need to re-encode, since Youtube videos are stored and served in chunks anyways. The change is that they are now slipping in the ad chunks as if they were a part of the normal video chunk stream.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoyeah that’s what im saying. Re-encoding and transcoding is completely different, it’s more than likely a served change, rather than a stored change.
AFAIK there is no need to re-encode, since Youtube videos are stored and served in chunks anyways. The change is that they are now slipping in the ad chunks as if they were a part of the normal video chunk stream.
yeah that’s what im saying. Re-encoding and transcoding is completely different, it’s more than likely a served change, rather than a stored change.