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The book · Volume 3 of 7
Video Streaming: A Complete Guide to Video Delivery: From ABR and CDNs to Players, WebRTC, DRM, and the Economics of Streaming
This cheatsheet breaks a streaming player into its parts, from manifest parsing and buffering to ABR and rendering. Volume 3 covers players in depth: ABR rung selection, buffer-based and throughput-based algorithms, recovery after stalls, trick play, subtitles, DRM integration and QoE monitoring. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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