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Couldn't this be done with two live streams for TX/RX? effectively creating a VPN? As the author said there's plenty of modulation techniques possibly. Surely some much faster ones could be used.

The biggest downside I could think of would be the lag: data > render frames > encode frames > network > decode stream > render frames > scrape data

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I think the author has not thought of frame reordering in error scenarios. If UDP is used, frames could even get dropped in the middle, and in case of TCP, frames could arrive out of order. That would wreck havoc in the odd-odd numbering sequence of the encoding.

Afaik, YouTube streams over TCP.

Tornado codes to the rescue, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_code

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