netflix Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events (opens in new tab)
Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events -- Listen Share By Renata Teixeira, Zhi Li, Reenal Mahajan, and Wei Wei On January 26, 2026, we flipped an important switch for Live at Netflix: all Live events are now encoded using VBR (Variable Bitra…