[opendtv] Re: More Are Watching Internet Video on Actual TVs

From: dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:58 -0700

From: Kilroy Hughes <Kilroy.Hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [opendtv] Re: More Are Watching Internet Video on Actual TVs,
Research
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:43:39 +0000

"Today you/we are stuck needing a different adaptive streaming app for each
OS, and sometimes several for different flavors of hardware and OS (like
Android).....

"Netflix maintained and tested about 400 players last I checked (probably
more now), and encoded over a dozen versions of each program (at multiple
bitrates)."

Thanks, Kilroy, for you lengthy discussion about where things are going.  I
do believe they will get simpler as the standards progress.

Interestingly, I thought we would see more progressive formats where one
file could be a source for many different bit rates; where the file would
ultimately contain a very high resolution but would start blocky and
resolve with more data.  The receiving side would receive packets as needed
to resolve as needed for both download speed and device resolution.
Obviously there would need to be a lot of control at the Application Layer
for each layer in the stack.  I'm not sure if it is even possible with
current standards, especially in a multicast environment, but I bet someone
out there is trying.

Dan

[opendtv] Re: More Are Watching Internet Video on Actual TVs

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