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Instagram Saved 90% of Computing Power and Improved Video Quality
- alirate 2y ago[flagged]
- jtovarys 2y agoI am noob in video streaming, so this is quite good insight into how much work goes into it
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- jjmarr 2y agoOriginal article: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/instagram-video-processing-encoding-reduction/ https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... I'm a huge fan of Ryan Peterman. I appreciated his actionable advice on his personal blog (developing.dev) as someone at the start of my career.
- Lukas_Skywalker 2y ago> On YouTube the average bitrate for a 1080 video is 8Mbps which is 1Mb of transmitted data every second. 1Mb -> 1MB
- richbray 2y agoGood spot. Just updated the article :)
- jsnell 2y agoBlogspam for https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/instagram-video-processing-encoding-reduction/ https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... (2022). The title is misleading enough that it suggests the author didn't really understand the article they were summarizing (or had an AI summarize?). This isn't a >90% reduction in the CPU used for transcoding in general, but just for a subset. Those freed up resources were then used for more advanced codecs.
- netsharc 2y agoThe single declarative sentence per paragraph, seemingly "If I sound like a TED talk I'll be as insightful as some of them!" is supremely obnoxious too... Or is it the impact of people using Twitter as place for long-form content? Who the frakk subscribes to your newsletter, richbray? Other tech bros?