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What was mentioned in the article seem like very basic, obvious considerations. Meanwhile, Youtube has custom ASICs which efficiently produce multiple formats s
by prvc 5y ago
What was mentioned in the article seem like very basic, obvious considerations. Meanwhile, Youtube has custom ASICs which efficiently produce multiple formats simultaneously.
- jeffbee 5y agoAnd yet, despite YouTube's abundantly clear motivation for doing so it took them years and years to develop the hardware and it only recently hit production. Could it be that acceleration for video encoding isn't as easy as people are making it sound?
- dylan604 5y agoI'm waiting for the "meh, i could roll it out in a weekend" responses.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoOf course I could;) It would just be hacky, ugly, unreliable, scale badly, use either GPUs or inadequate FPGAs, and fall over once it exceeded 10 users. My resume doesn't need to know that, though:)
- dylan604 5y agoYou now know 1 way of not to do it.