boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square404fedilinkarrow-up1629arrow-down123cross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1606arrow-down1external-linkYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square404fedilinkcross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squaretomalley8342@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-25 months 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-up2·5 months 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.