Understanding Latency in HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming

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. 🙂