Friday, April 13, 2018

Did You Know About Adaptive Bitrate Streaming?

Slow buffering problems on multimedia platforms have become such a common problem on the internet as to have become a joke. YouTube has even incorporated an interactive game of snake to keep the site's visitors occupied during the inevitable waits. One simple and effective solution to this problem is Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, or ABS. ABS is now used in the highest quality video broadcasting sites or live streaming platforms on the world wide web.

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming works as your computer sends information to the media platform about the bandwidth it currently has available. The platform reads the information it is sent and sends in reply the next segment of the video being watched. This operation is performed constantly in the background. If the bandwidth available rises, the quality of the segments of video being sent rises, if it drops then they also lower in quality. This ensures the computer and video are always streaming at, and never above, capacity. ABS ensures the best quality video playback is always reached, without buffering times ever being a problem.

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