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YouTube has different needs for different videos. The average barely-viewed video can use quick and dirty hardware compression, but a large fraction of views
by Veedrac 5y ago
YouTube has different needs for different videos. The average barely-viewed video can use quick and dirty hardware compression, but a large fraction of views are on a small fraction of videos, which is the sort of thing that more intense AI-assisted optimization would help with.
- jeffbee 5y agoId bet the median YouTube view count is zero, in which case the real gains would be from accurate inference of which videos fell into that class.
- eigenvalue 5y agoIn that case, they could probably just trigger a re-encoding of videos when they cross into 100+ views from over 50 unique IP addresses or something like that.
- kingcharles 5y agoLOL. I never thought about it before, but that statistic would be interesting to know. How close to zero is it?