I am curious why they manually split the video to compress individual clips with different bit rates. Encoders usually have a variable-bit-rate option that does the same?
That's the essence of adaptive streaming - the player continuously selects a video bitrate that can be downloaded quickly enough given the network conditions. That requires multiple video bitrates being available, and each one must be encoded such that the player can switch between them at known cut points.
trunnell|3 years ago