Personal notes on video encoding, streaming protocols and self-hosting.
Hardware AV1 decoders are finally everywhere. For archiving, H.265 still wins on encoding speed; for distribution, AV1's royalty-free story is hard to argue with...
LL-HLS trades segment duration for playlist churn. In practice, 2s partial segments get you to ~3s glass-to-glass without blowing up CDN costs...
A writeup of my current stack: object storage backend, on-the-fly transcoding queue, and a static player front-end. Total cost: one small VPS...