Thread: Hulu on the iPad?
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Old 02-10-2010, 10:44 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
From Hulu:

"Video quality is very important to us. We adjust the video bitrate between 480Kbps and 700Kbps depending on your bandwidth. Leveraging the H.264 capability of the new Flash Player, we also now offer a portion of our content in a higher resolution 1,000Kbps stream. Videos available in this format will display with a 480p Hi Res button on the lower right-hand side of the player. If you have sufficient bandwidth and Flash Player 10.0.22, click the button to view this high resolution stream. "
Right-but they could have just hard-encoded the content in .FLV, like Youtube originally did. Instead, they separated the player from the content, giving them more flexibility down the road.
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