Streaming a live sporting event to millions of concurrent viewers is a different engineering challenge than on-demand video. Platforms like Hotstar rely on low-latency HLS and DASH protocols, chunked transfer encoding, and multi-CDN load balancing to keep delay under a few seconds while avoiding regional network congestion.
This section covers how large-scale live video delivery actually works under the hood, from encoding strategy to CDN routing. Read the guide below for the full architecture breakdown.