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walterbelllast Tuesday at 3:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

Gapless playback with MSE would require identical encoding, which is likely more prevalent in the Apple catalog than the wild west of Youtube. Client-side transcode would require DRM cooperation.

For two video streams with different encodings, swapping between two media players + prefetch can give a close approximation of a continuous video stream.