YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
MiltownClowns @ MiltownClowns @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 246Joined 2 yr. ago
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This. I don't exactly know how YouTube's architecture works, but from running my own mediaserver i woild guess They don't live transcode because that takes clock cycles on a graphics card or a CPU. They transcode a couple of different bitrate files to serve up and then just serve up direct stream file transfers, thus saving electricity and clock cycles. In order to actively embed an ad in a YouTube video it would have to be done semi-permanently, Decreasing the value of live serve ads.