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Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 11 months agoDon’t they have standardized resolutions and the file broken into hundreds/thousands of parts anyways? Couldn’t they just add in ads to some of those parts in those same resolutions?
e.g: en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove…
Similar to Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) solution, MPEG-DASH works by breaking the content into a sequence of small segments, which are served over HTTP.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
isn’t this more or less what they’re doing now? The difference is that the ads are coming from different server and have an overlay on top with a timer and a skip. As long as the ads are coming from a different server they will be detectable. Also as long as the ads have overlays they are also detectable. They would need to make the ads be served from the same server that serves the video and eliminate the overlays.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We could build a public database (like SponsorBlock) of known ad video slices and detect them that way.