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I'm excited about this, especially the possibility of including other services (like video encoding).

by balac 16y ago

bdickason 16y ago
Could not agree more. Video encoding is still damn expensive. We're using encoding.com and although they have great customer support, we're still paying roughly $1/video to encode. 5% of these videos will account for 95% of the views. Why pay $1 to encode an unpopular video then $0.001 for the bandwidth? Encoding is the only piece of our video model that currently doesn't scale directly.
- wizard_2 16y ago
  A hacker I know (who has I team I believe - the debuggable.com guys - both successful bloggers and core teamembers of the cakephp community) has been working on transload.it for a while, it's a pretty good service despite still being in beta, but I haven't put it through its paces like I'm sure you would. (I was working on a wordpress plugin.) It sits on ec2 and will save right into your s3. http://transloadit.com http://transloadit.com I don't know their plans for the full release, but they could be a way to break out of your lock in with encoding.com.
  - bdickason 16y ago
    Thanks! I'll check them out :) We actually offload right to Akamai so the s3 integration isn't a big deal for us, but anything to drop the price of bandwidth or encoding is a win these days :( Tho I must say the encoding guys are awesome so it will take a damn good product to make me leave them.
  - sjs382 16y ago
    Wow. This might be perfect for an upcoming project. I wish there was pricing info though. :-/
- modoc 16y ago
  You check out Zencoder? http://zencoder.com/ http://zencoder.com/ Another HN community gem imho.
- patrickgzill 16y ago
  I am very confused. You can rent a 12GB RAM 8-core Nehalem system for under $400 per month - surely such a system can encode much more than 400 videos in 30 days? http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/inferno-enterprise-hosting.php http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/inferno-enterprise-ho...
  - astrange 16y ago
    You could also buy a computer - they're pretty cheap. Or has that gone out of fashion?
  - bdickason 16y ago
    Correct. 400 videos in 30 days is no problem. However, video encoding is purely a 'peak' architecture issue. If your videos take longer than 10 minutes (give or take a few) to encode, they leave or complain. This is fine at 4am but during peak times, we see 100-200 videos uploaded in the course of 5 minutes... and we're a small video 'network.' During off-peak times, we see maybe 5-10 videos per hour. So it doesn't really help us to have a full time computer or four.. we've gone down this route. The 'cloud' tech is really the best way to do it.

I'm excited about this, especially the possibility of including other services (like video encoding).

by balac 16y ago

I'm excited about this, especially the possibility of including other services (like video encoding).

Could not agree more. Video encoding is still damn expensive. We're using encoding.com and although they have great customer support, we're still paying roughly $1/video to encode. 5% of these videos will account for 95% of the views. Why pay $1 to encode an unpopular video then $0.001 for the bandwidth? Encoding is the only piece of our video model that currently doesn't scale directly.

wizard_2 16y ago
A hacker I know (who has I team I believe - the debuggable.com guys - both successful bloggers and core teamembers of the cakephp community) has been working on transload.it for a while, it's a pretty good service despite still being in beta, but I haven't put it through its paces like I'm sure you would. (I was working on a wordpress plugin.) It sits on ec2 and will save right into your s3. http://transloadit.com http://transloadit.com I don't know their plans for the full release, but they could be a way to break out of your lock in with encoding.com.
- bdickason 16y ago
  Thanks! I'll check them out :) We actually offload right to Akamai so the s3 integration isn't a big deal for us, but anything to drop the price of bandwidth or encoding is a win these days :( Tho I must say the encoding guys are awesome so it will take a damn good product to make me leave them.
- sjs382 16y ago
  Wow. This might be perfect for an upcoming project. I wish there was pricing info though. :-/
modoc 16y ago
You check out Zencoder? http://zencoder.com/ http://zencoder.com/ Another HN community gem imho.
patrickgzill 16y ago
I am very confused. You can rent a 12GB RAM 8-core Nehalem system for under $400 per month - surely such a system can encode much more than 400 videos in 30 days? http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/inferno-enterprise-hosting.php http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/inferno-enterprise-ho...
- astrange 16y ago
  You could also buy a computer - they're pretty cheap. Or has that gone out of fashion?
- bdickason 16y ago
  Correct. 400 videos in 30 days is no problem. However, video encoding is purely a 'peak' architecture issue. If your videos take longer than 10 minutes (give or take a few) to encode, they leave or complain. This is fine at 4am but during peak times, we see 100-200 videos uploaded in the course of 5 minutes... and we're a small video 'network.' During off-peak times, we see maybe 5-10 videos per hour. So it doesn't really help us to have a full time computer or four.. we've gone down this route. The 'cloud' tech is really the best way to do it.