Does iptv use mylticast?

by darkdevi220

Hello fellow redditter i m wondering dors IPTV use multicast or unicast ? I m having trouble with my internet connection in getting a decent unicast bandwith and i m wondering is this causing the stuttering in my iptv subscription thx in advance

aandras

There are manybreadons for buffering. It can be your ISP throttling you, a crapy provider. Your iptv player or even your device.
You really need to test each out.

sturmey

multi-cast is not used in the delivery of IPTV. multi-cast uses UDP with is not route-able in the conventional way that internet traffic is. IPTV uses hls which is Hypertext Live Stream so it's a web protocol.

max_lapshin

IPTV uses multicast in operator controlled networks.

In short: if you own network hardware, you can send multicast through it.

IPTV OTT (over the top) uses TCP protocols, for example HLS, HTTP MPEG-TS or DASH.