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Keep in mind that they can very well predict which videos will have any meaningful amount of views <99% and just encode on demand the ones that won’t.
by kortilla 4y ago
Keep in mind that they can very well predict which videos will have any meaningful amount of views <99% and just encode on demand the ones that won’t.
- patentatt 4y agoI didn't know that, and am glad that they do transcode on the fly when appropriate. Very impressive that it's seamless to the end user, I've never sat waiting for a YouTube clip to play even when it's definitely something from the 'back catalog' like a decade old video with a dozen views.