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This isn't as interesting as I hoped it would be from reading the title. It looks like the only technical aspect of this is caching the input file, which makes

by amock 16y ago

This isn't as interesting as I hoped it would be from reading the title. It looks like the only technical aspect of this is caching the input file, which makes sense but isn't very exciting. Is there any work being done on sharing some of the encoding work between different resolutions of the same codec? I don't know a lot about video codecs but it seems like you might be able to encode the higher resolution video and save some of the intermediate data to use with the lower resolution video to at least provide hints.

brandonarbini 16y ago
This is mostly about the business side of things. Many of our customers are encoding to multiple formats to deliver a better user experience and we wanted our pricing to adapt. Technically, we encode all of the outputs for a file in parallel across multiple transcoding servers. We're looking for ways to reduce the number of steps involved in moving an input file through the system which may result in some sort of forking of the decode to multiple simultaneous encodes, but that remains to be seen.