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given that sites tend to only encode to a few formats, and given decoding is cheap cpu wise: couldn't you pipe the output of the ffmpeg decoder into a hardware
by blibble 14y ago
given that sites tend to only encode to a few formats, and given decoding is cheap cpu wise: couldn't you pipe the output of the ffmpeg decoder into a hardware encoder and get the best of both worlds?
- wmf 14y agoYou mean the worst of both worlds? Hardware encoders are both more expensive and less elastic; software can just run on the existing EC2 infrastructure.
- byoung2 14y agoWhen I worked at ClearChannel, it was the other way around...live feeds (e.g. Rush Limbaugh's HD video feed) came out of a bank of MOTU livestream encoders and was then fed through ffmpeg to be downsampled to web and mobile.