Live Video: Scalable Streaming and CDN Strategies
Live Video: Scalable Streaming and CDN Strategies Delivering live video to a global audience requires more than a single server. Scalable streaming and smart CDN strategies help reduce latency, avoid buffering, and adapt to traffic spikes. This guide shares practical ideas you can apply today, from encoding choices to multi-CDN planning. Start with a clear delivery workflow. Ingest a feed, encode at multiple bitrates, and package into common formats like HLS or DASH. Keep segments small enough for quick fetches, and publish a single adaptive manifest so players choose the right quality automatically. Plan for low-latency options if you need faster joins to the stream. ...