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youre still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the chea
by ellg 6mo ago
youre still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the cheap part
- cwillu 6mo agoTranscoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.
- ellg 6mo agoya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something
- vscode-rest 6mo ago[dead]
- Karliss 6mo agoTwitch can forward the stream as is without transcoding it. That's what transcoding not being guaranteed means. It will be a worse experience for viewers but it can work. Few years ago they even announced working with OBS on feature where streamers themselves can transcode and send multiple streams further reducing need for twitch to spend their compute resources on unprofitable streamers.
- saltmate 6mo agoThat feature exists by now, called "Enhanced Broadcasting".
- cwillu 6mo agoIn addition to the other reply, forwarding to one region in the cdn is not the same as forwarding to every region.
- cortesoft 6mo agoMaybe they just don’t do that if you don’t have any streamers.