A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

The text discusses an individual's journey of learning about HLS (HTTP Live Streaming), a protocol used for streaming multimedia content over HTTP. It covers the basics of how video players and servers communicate, the structure of a video in plain text, and introduces concepts like manifests, renditions, and segments. The author uses practical examples to demonstrate how to use HLS, including using curl commands to retrieve information about video files and their chunks or segments. They also provide a link to further reading on the subject, specifically the IETF's RFC 8216. The text concludes by encouraging developers interested in this topic to consider working at Mux or attending Demuxed, a conference for video engineers.