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I've thought about the infrastructure issue a lot. The nice thing is that our value add is in the "create." We can hand off the "host" on videos that aren't p
by fapi1974 16y ago
I've thought about the infrastructure issue a lot. The nice thing is that our value add is in the "create." We can hand off the "host" on videos that aren't profitable by just posting them to youtube or elsewhere...where they will still have value for the user, and where we can still generate some ads from them...
- marcamillion 16y agoI was really talking about the creation side. For instance, say someone wants to create an hour long video. From the little that I know of rendering video on my desktop machines - to render a small 5 minute video can take a few hours. So it just seems that a long-form video will churn up CPU cycles that you are paying for. Although, now that I think about, I guess you could just charge per CPU hour or whatever. But I was more thinking of the creation - than the distribution/hosting.
- fapi1974 16y agoDefinitely good insight. I am initially limiting the number of contributors and the segment length - so the processing could actually open up another premium feature.
- jcr 16y agoThere are a few outfits working on the resource intensive encoding problem. The only one that comes to mind at the moment is zencoder.com but I'm sure there are others out there if you look. http://zencoder.com/ http://zencoder.com/