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also the good thing about getting your own servers is having hardware options (like getting SSD drives instead of the regular ones, having a video card (if you

by mtw 17y ago

also the good thing about getting your own servers is having hardware options (like getting SSD drives instead of the regular ones, having a video card (if you do media transcoding), etc.)

jawngee 17y ago
You don't need a video card for media transcoding.
- Periodic 17y ago
  But it can make it much faster. Video cards optimized for a lot of those video-related operations.
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- listic 17y ago
  But video transcoding can be faster by a factor of several, if done on a GPU. That's a big deal for those who do video transcoding all the time. The irony is that GPU is a more powerful processor than CPU, just not as versatile and easy to use (only a small subset of programming tools can use it yet) but it changes.
  - jawngee 17y ago
    Show me an open source encoder with GPU support. From my research, when you are doing high quality encodings the speed difference is negligible at best. Also, at web scale encoding time isn't nearly as important as the ability to go parallel which is significantly cheaper and easier to scale using a bunch of EC2 instances. We process 2-300 videos a month, though during competitions we process 10x that in a month. All of the bandwidth, storage, processing is less than $10K a year with an average encoding FPS of 33fps. I would love pointers to sources if this isn't the case and I can do this for massify cheaper. Would be appreciated. EDIT: We also encode 2-3 different versions of the video at varying sizes and bitrates.
    - mey 17y ago
      Lookup CUDA For example http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=detailsOpen;aid=71454a1e-2588-4983-85bd-578a6d501c65 http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=detailsOpe...
      - jawngee 17y ago
        There aren't any open source CUDA apps that do transcoding, so far they are all Windows apps. And non-scriptable ones at that, which rules out web scale.
        mey 17y ago
        My point isn't so much picking something off the shelf, its more develop something for yourself. If "web scale" means that the ROI is greater then development effort plus hardware acquisitions compared to your current system then do it.
    - adnam 17y ago
      > Show me an open source encoder with GPU support Have you tried Fluendo? I think it has GPU support to a certain extent. Not sure if this is a help, but here you go: https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki/GPUSupport https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki/GPUSupport

by mtw 17y ago

also the good thing about getting your own servers is having hardware options (like getting SSD drives instead of the regular ones, having a video card (if you do media transcoding), etc.)

jawngee 17y ago

You don't need a video card for media transcoding.

Periodic 17y ago
But it can make it much faster. Video cards optimized for a lot of those video-related operations.
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listic 17y ago
But video transcoding can be faster by a factor of several, if done on a GPU. That's a big deal for those who do video transcoding all the time. The irony is that GPU is a more powerful processor than CPU, just not as versatile and easy to use (only a small subset of programming tools can use it yet) but it changes.
- jawngee 17y ago
  Show me an open source encoder with GPU support. From my research, when you are doing high quality encodings the speed difference is negligible at best. Also, at web scale encoding time isn't nearly as important as the ability to go parallel which is significantly cheaper and easier to scale using a bunch of EC2 instances. We process 2-300 videos a month, though during competitions we process 10x that in a month. All of the bandwidth, storage, processing is less than $10K a year with an average encoding FPS of 33fps. I would love pointers to sources if this isn't the case and I can do this for massify cheaper. Would be appreciated. EDIT: We also encode 2-3 different versions of the video at varying sizes and bitrates.
  - mey 17y ago
    Lookup CUDA For example http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=detailsOpen;aid=71454a1e-2588-4983-85bd-578a6d501c65 http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=detailsOpe...
    - jawngee 17y ago
      There aren't any open source CUDA apps that do transcoding, so far they are all Windows apps. And non-scriptable ones at that, which rules out web scale.
      - mey 17y ago
        My point isn't so much picking something off the shelf, its more develop something for yourself. If "web scale" means that the ROI is greater then development effort plus hardware acquisitions compared to your current system then do it.
  - adnam 17y ago
    > Show me an open source encoder with GPU support Have you tried Fluendo? I think it has GPU support to a certain extent. Not sure if this is a help, but here you go: https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki/GPUSupport https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki/GPUSupport