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Video Deduplication : Longer Video startups

In Video Deduplication, it was mentioned, duplicate videos result in “Longer Video startups”. Can you explain how this happens? Once I have duplicate video on my browser, there is Video ID which is unique key. Isn’t streaming this video is like any other video?

Hi @SubbuY,

Hope you are doing well.

The “Longer Videos Startups” mentioned in this Design when you don’t handle duplicated videos, are related to the difficult of caching these videos. Since you gonna have several “instances” of the same video, BUT, with different IDs it is more difficult (probably, almost impossible at Youtube and Netflix scale) to differ two videos “on demand” or while it is being “streamed”.

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Artur Baruchi
(twitter @abaruchi)