The BBC has ‘solved’ the lag between live streams and TV

The BBC has ‘solved’ the lag between live streams and TV

Livestreaming revolves around sending users media in segments, and the size of those is everything. Large segments introduce a lot of lag, since it takes longer to process them, but short segments can be wildly inefficient. The BBC’s methods either shrink a given segment or create segments in a progressive format that can be sent …