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They're thinking of live dash streams. Eg. how many seconds from video camera to screen.

I can see it would probably be possible to get low latency, but without a fancy server stalling connections till frames become available, flushing on frame boundaries, etc, I can't see it working. Try doing such things with a CDN like cloudflare to support lots of users...

Also, for true streaming, timing should be done by the camera. Ie. If the cameras frame rate is 0.0001% slower than the 60fps advertised, the display device should slow down to match.

MPEG-DASH has no ability to do this, and would lead to a "buffering" gap for a second every few hours of playback time.




Segment length can be set to 1 second, if you're brave. 5 seconds for live streams just happens to be the most commonly reached compromise.




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