Re:The Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market
by hinkley on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:05PM
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Three things stand out to me. One and two, some devices have hardware support for certain formats, and Netflix optimized for playtime (battery) and bandwidth so you have to handle all those.
Scaling a video on the client looks like crap and is slow. So you have to deal with all the fiddly screen resolutions, of which the distinct count used to be truly awful but now is much better. However you have to add tablets in which cancels out some of the gains in sanity.
On the bandwidth thing, I wouldn’t put it past Netflix to reencode popular movies with a more time intensive compression settings to achieve better aggregate bandwidth usage but not hold up new releases.
Scaling a video on the client looks like crap and is slow. So you have to deal with all the fiddly screen resolutions, of which the distinct count used to be truly awful but now is much better. However you have to add tablets in which cancels out some of the gains in sanity.
On the bandwidth thing, I wouldn’t put it past Netflix to reencode popular movies with a more time intensive compression settings to achieve better aggregate bandwidth usage but not hold up new releases.