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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 day

• 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.