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cosmotic ◴[] No.42067844[source]
Why decode to then turn around and re-encode?
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1. Szpadel ◴[] No.42068185[source]
my guess is either that video they get use some proprietary encoding format (js might do some magic on the feed) or it's because it's latency optimized stream that consumes a lot of bandwidth