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Can someone eli5 why invidious has difficulty with 360p quality but newpipe does not? (lemmy.perthchat.org)

submitted 2 years ago by thursday_j@lemmy.perthchat.org to c/videos@lemmy.ml

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[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 2 years ago

Difficult to diagnose since the issue could be on either side of the wall. I'd guess YouTube's CDN's and/or differences in requested formats (WebM/AV1 vs. mp4/h264).

It could be YouTube using a global Content Delivery Network (CDN), which are servers all over the world caching (having a copy) of the videos. They've got limited space, and thus only room for the most popular videos. Every video is available in various qualities (360p, 480p, etc.), and I can imagine a scenario where the 360p video is stored "centrally" while the 720p/1080p versions are spread around the difference caches for easy access.

I've experienced up to a minute of load-time on some of my older, obscure, never-watched decade old uploads.