Cost and speed
Monetisation : Multi-period DASH x ExoPlayer
Our short summary of JioHotstar’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Users needed to add region‑specific ads and legal text without re‑encoding each video, which was slow and expensive.
Solution
They rewrote ExoPlayer’s ad handling to support multi‑period DASH, letting the player insert new content blocks on the fly.
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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Elastic