Netflix It is one of the streaming services with the most users on the planet, this is something that we know as well as its engineers do not stop working for a single moment to launch new functionalities and improve the capabilities of those that are already being used by users. On this occasion, it seems that they have decided to focus on the latter and optimize as much as possible the way videos are stored and viewed without losing quality.
One of the main problems of streaming, at least until now, is that in order to watch quality videos, they weigh too much, something that also influences the fact that we want to download a movie or series to watch it offline. It is at this point where Netflix has achieved that, thanks to a new video compression technology, that these weigh much less without losing quality, which will greatly improve the loading speed while the videos you download will take up much less memory.
Netflix, thanks to VP9 compression technology, makes your videos much lighter.
Regarding the technology used, mention that we are talking about the open source compression format VP9 developed by Google although improved by displaying a huge amount of scenes and hours of video. Basically what this form does is allow each movie and even each scene of each movie, depending on its characteristics, to be compressed using one format or another. For this, from Netflix, several people were hired who were watching independent scenes in tablets in different formats, choosing in which terminal it was best viewed.
Once the engineers had enough information, it was time for a artificial intelligence system was trained, thus managing to develop a platform capable of informing about how each video should be compressed in the most compact and optimal way possible. Thanks to all this, now all series will load much faster without having to hire, for example, a very high-speed internet connection.