Disney’s Indian streaming division – Disney+ Hotstar – has made “orders of magnitude improvements” after recently introducing chunked encoding into its video processing pipeline. A recent blogpost from an engineer at the Disney+ Hotstar Video Center of Excellence has presented the results. It does not, however, confirm whether these are lab results, or whether Disney+ Hotstar has rolled out chunked encoding fully into its streaming operations yet. Reading between the lines, the public show of celebration would suggest that consumers are already reaping the QoE benefits, and Disney+ Hotstar the commercial benefits. With Disney+ Hotstar positioned as a standalone unit, it is perhaps not surprising to discover that the Disney+ Hotstar Video Center of Excellence is a separate entity from…