Playground · Live A/B demo

Simulate packet loss.
See what survives.

Two receivers — same broken network. On the left, a classical streamer. On the right, The Stream. Move the loss slider and watch.

Classical stream · HLS-style

Packet loss0%
Healthy
Playing at full quality
Quality
100%
Rebuffers
0
SNR
∞
How it works: Packets are decoded in full or not at all. Above ~30% loss the decoder gives up and rebuffers. Above ~50% the stream fails completely.

The Stream · FQL

Layers delivered12 / 12
Full precision
SNR ≈ 72 dB · mathematically lossless
Quality
100%
Rebuffers
0
SNR
72 dB
How it works: Lose a packet, lose a layer. Quality drops by ~6 dB per lost layer, but the stream never stops. Decoder outputs the best it can from whatever arrived.