TVV EP 22 - Playback experience in YouTube by Chas Mastin

12/30/23 • 52 min

In this episode, Chas Mastin shared his insights about how YouTube ensures premium playback experience for its users. As one of the largest streaming platforms globally, YouTube faces the challenge of delivering supreme experiences to millions of concurrent users and playback sessions from around the world. Chas discusses the technical challenges in CDN peering, obtaining QoE metrics from the players, and how to manage a diverse range of different end devices and video players.
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The VideoVerse - TVV EP 22 - Playback experience in YouTube by Chas Mastin

Transcript

Welcome to "The VideoVerse."
Zoe: Hi, everyone, and welcome to "The Universe Podcast." So this is Zoe again, and today I have my colleague from Visionular, Bo, to join me as a cohost. Hi, Bo.

Bo: Hi. Hello, everyone.
Zoe: Okay, great. So for this episode, we actually feel honored to invite Chas Mastin from YouTube TV to join us. And hi, Chas. Good to have you down here.