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Why Netflix downloads offline video to your iOS device in 1-3 minute chunks

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<p>Update: Netflix tells us that is does not save space in all cases – in other cases, it boosts the quality instead. The primary focus of its approach is to work toward improved mobile streaming quality.</p>
<p>One of the reasons it took <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/netflix/" target="_blank">Netflix[/url] so long to allow subscribers to download video for <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/30/netflix-offline-video-download/" target="_blank">offline playback[/url], says the company, is that it wanted to make sure that it could deliver high-quality downloads in a reasonable amount of storage space.</p>
<p>A piece in <a href="http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-offline-downloads-codecs-vp9-1201932502/" target="_blank">Variety[/url] reveals that while it was able to do this reasonably easily for Android devices – using a Google codec designed to significantly reduce the amount of data needed for high-quality video transmission – things weren’t quite so simple on iPhone and iPad. In fact, it ended up splitting video into chunks of just one to three minutes each to do the job …</p>
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