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> Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 seconds uses much more power than too many unoptimized PNGs do Youtube encodes the video only onc
by cblconfederate 6y ago
> Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 seconds uses much more power than too many unoptimized PNGs do
Youtube encodes the video only once, users decode them billions of times in their laptops/phones
Plus datacenters have an incentive to be energy efficient and are becoming more and more green.
- kortilla 6y agoDon’t forget most videos see very few to no views (private/unlisted and people are mostly boring)l
- cblconfederate 6y agoThat has a negligible impact on the ratio of <view time> / <encoding time>
- madeofpalk 6y ago> Youtube encodes the video only once My assumption always has been that Youtube is creating multiple renditions of videos at different resolutions and codecs.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- pitay 6y agoPretty sure the GP meant only once for the encoding of each resolution. He was just pointing out the asymmetry of the work, YT only encodes once per distinct resolution it shows, each of these encodings can be decoded by clients millions of times if the video is popular enough to bring in that many clients.