---
title: "How Pinterest Optimized Video Playback"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-optimized-video-playback-j622lm4bd
source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/how-pinterest-optimized-video-playback-02e9
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2025-02-14T16:37:57.497Z
updated: 2025-02-14T16:38:12.127Z
tags: ["tech-news", "webdev", "performance"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How Pinterest Optimized Video Playback

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Pinterest has optimized video playback by introducing Adaptive Bitrate Streaming and embedding manifest files in their metadata API to reduce startup latency. They used both HLS for iOS and DASH for Android. By caching popular video manifest files, Pinterest achieved a 36.7% reduction in p90 startup latency on iOS and improved the user experience by reducing the number of users facing delays in video startup.

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