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Ask Mr. McKinney
While Jon McKinney’s official title is VP, Client Services, he’s also the guy many of us turn to for straightforward answers to tech questions. We thought we’d share his wisdom with our blog readers, since having guys like Jon on the team are part of what makes KIT different. Is there a difference in the way live events (like the Olympics) and pre-recorded content (like Game of Thrones) are delivered via OTT? A live stream is delivered via a direct link from a distribution source, such as a satellite to a live encode facility. From there, it is encoded on-the-fly and delivered to an edge distribution network and then on to end-users. VOD assets are run through a similar file-based encoder and distributed to the CDN much the same. On the CDN, the live asset behaves similar to a VOD asset in that it is generally ABR (Adaptive bitrate), delivered via Unicast rather than IP multicast and is sourced from … Continue reading