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I do not know the answer, but I would absolutely shocked if it was streamed as a regular video. To the best of my knowledge, there are many, many optimizations which go into video.

This is a pretty good high-level video I came across - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI

I mean, technically, it would be "streamed as a regular video", it's just that "regular video encoding" is pretty efficient at encoding a single unchanging image nowadays.

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