[technology taskforce] Youtube streaming

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Dear Jonathan,

my understanding of the technology leads me to believe that YouTube
indeed has a Quality of Service algorithm that lowers the bitrate when
it detects lower speed connections, thus, as you said, the resolution of
the video is lowered. Add with this, some caching taking place at your
ISP, which is probable, you've got a more stable connection through YT.
Part of the reason why it is very hard for other video delivery services
to compete on quality with YT.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 03/11/2020 18:14, Jonathan Zuck wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Until today my advocacy for Youtube streaming was based largely on
> research and supposition but my wife and I are currently staying in an
> AirBnB in Tucson with incredibly slow internet:
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> So slow, in fact, that I’m having difficulties maintaining Zoom calls
> which never happens for me. I’m blessed to live in areas in DC and LA
> where internet speeds are fast!  Last night we attempted to
> participate in a virtual ritual for  Dia de Los Muertos that took
> place over Zoom and we simply were unable to maintain the connection.
> Luckily, the event was simultaneously streamed to Youtube which we
> were able to watch just fine, albeit at a lower resolution than
> normal. I’ve heard a rumor that the meeting staff didn’t find much
> difference between the Zoom bandwidth consumption and the Youtube
> consumption but I’m here to tell you definitively, the difference can
> be staggering.  It’s possible that video use on the plenaries are
> sharply limited so as to minimize bandwidth usage but that’s NOT the
> direction we want our meetings to go. We want MORE video participation
> in our virtual meetings, not less.
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> I say this all to say that regardless of the reports we receive from
> the meetings team, we need to keep pushing for more widespread 
> streaming to Youtube of both ICANN meetings and our capacity building
> webinars.
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> Jonathan
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