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How Video Works
.works How video works Playback It might seem obvious, but there's a lot wrapped up in the word "playback"! The video player's UI is the first thing that most people associate with playback since it's what they see and interact with the most whenever they watch video on a site or platform. The icons and colors used in a player’s controls might be the most visible to the end-user, but that's just the tip of the playback iceberg.
In more technical terms, a CDN is a system of interconnected servers located across the globe that uses geographical proximity as the main criteria for distributing cached content (e.g. segmented video files) to viewers. compatibility: outdated hardware or software, some devices might require specific codecs economics: avoid patent costs, saving on storage and bandwidth enhancements: better compression ratio, higher resolutions, better framerate, new features (such as HDR, 3D sound) automatically converting speech to closed caption creating thumbnails facilitating the scene navigation on the player scaling up videos to super resolution using AI enriching metadata by identifying characters, objects, time, places, etc.
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