How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

The text discusses interactive live streaming at scale, focusing on the technical challenges faced by apps like HQ Trivia and others such as Twitter Periscope, Facebook Live, and Twitch. It highlights that this type of streaming falls between broadcast media and real-time communication, combining their respective challenges. The article delves into the requirements for interactive live video, including a real-time data framework and low latency video at scale. It also explores how to get video from the source into the transcoder on the server and out to players using HTTP with Chunked Transfer. Finally, it summarizes a scalable low-latency streaming solution and mentions Mux's ongoing work in this area.