After clearing out the larger picture on the codec front to the myopic vision of the seventh edition of Bitmovin’s Developer Report, Faultline this week is looking into another aspect of the survey results—low latency. Comparisons to previous years are still lacking, and insights are to be extracted. Recent results have shown LL-HLS and LL-DASH as ranking the two most popular low latency adaptive streaming protocols, compared to previous years. In the latest version, 37% of respondents use LL-HLS, while 29% deploy LL-DASH. However, neither of these are the top choice. As shown in the graph below, the highest-ranking technology used for low latency has consistently been none. Most developers (41% in 2023) do not use any low latency protocols,…