2 ms·
Since the audio and video streams are muxed into a single file, and the copyright "check" is done based on location this would mean YouTube encoding every video
by chrisfarms 15y ago
Since the audio and video streams are muxed into a single file, and the copyright "check" is done based on location this would mean YouTube encoding every video twice (and for each resolution), effectively doubling YouTube's storage requirements.... most people will then re-upload their video in a non-infringing manor anyway, so it would be quite wasteful.
- shabble 15y agoI was imagining something more along the lines of a server-side filter that stripped the audio chunks out of the stream as it sent, although I have no idea if such a thing is practical. They've already re-encoded their entire library once (for WebM support), so in theory they are capable of it. The storage requirements might be a killer though. I suspect it's technically possible, but maybe the potential revenue from the effort wouldn't make economic sense.
- icebraining 15y agoThey could just mute it in Flash. Yeah, you can still extract it, but that's illegal anyway.