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Day 15: Adopt Adaptive Bitrate Streaming to automate adjustment of video quality in real time #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Cloudinary’s Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABS) capability adjusts video quality in real time to deliver the best-possible quality for the current viewing device and network connection.

- You can eliminate buffering time
- You can save bandwidth by displaying a lower-resolution..

... video to keep the audience engaged if the network connection is too weak to display the high-resolution version. #25DaysOfMediaMagic

So you can use @cloudinary to generate a video in “HLS” format, which is a supported adaptive streaming format.

Check out the example of eagerly generating this video in “HLS” format #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Node.js:

Then deliver the video using the corresponding file format, such as .m3u8 (HLS) here, and include the streaming profile (sp_) and other transformations exactly matching what you generated in your eager transformation. #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Finally, you can use the Cloudinary video player to display the video on the browser. Actually, any video player which supports HLS.

That’s it. 😊 #25DaysOfMediaMagic