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This assumes that you can evenly distribute your transcoding load over the course of a month. For most customers, transcoding needs are severely peaky - 10x or
by jon_dahl 15y ago
This assumes that you can evenly distribute your transcoding load over the course of a month. For most customers, transcoding needs are severely peaky - 10x or more from peak-to-average. So you either buy for the peaks and your hardware goes idle 90% of the time, or buy for the average and see long queue times. For most video publishers, each on-premise machine ends up using only a small fraction of 43,000 minutes each month.
- jfb 15y agoAlso, that Rhozet/Main Concept/&c. are good enough, which in many cases is demonstrably not true.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> Also, that Rhozet/Main Concept/&c. are good enough, which in many cases is demonstrably not true Wha? You think that Zencoder wrote their own codecs? They're selling an API and cloud tech, and with 20 people are certainly wrapping somebody else's encoding.
- jfb 15y agoI'm not making a representation about our (1) tech so much as that of the other professional grade format conversion services. (1) I recently joined Zencoder. Consume appropriate amount of salt.
- jfb 15y agoAlso, do you have any idea what a broadcast grade format conversion box actually costs?
- jpdoctor 15y agoYes. My comments are not theoretical.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> This assumes that you can evenly distribute your transcoding load over the course of a month. No it does not. A low priced quad core is already in excess of their highest listed service, for less money. Put a dual hex xeon into service and you have at least 10x the capacity (remember that even HD transcodes at faster than real time), and it pays off in less than a year.