Jan Ozer of Streaming Media magazine contacted me recently with a simple question about Smooth Streaming and HLS latency… and I provided a more elaborate reply than he perhaps anticipated. Here is my response in its entirety, for your reading pleasure:
http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/blogs/understanding-abr-latency-a-guest-post-from-alex-zambelli.html
P.S. I fully recognize the irony of my first official post of 2015 being a promotion of a blog post I sort of accidentally wrote for somebody else’s blog. 🙂
About Alex Zambelli
Alex is a Product Manager at Discovery in Bellevue, WA. Prior to his current job he was a Product Manager at Hulu and iStreamPlanet (Turner), and Technical Evangelist for media technologies at Microsoft. He has been professionally involved with development of digital video and streaming technologies since 2002.