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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by earenndil on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:02AM (#16130727)
> vast increase in CPU cost for a minor decrease of bandwidth cost could still be a welcome trade-off

I don't think that this would be true, though. Recall the 80-20 rule. They have to encode (CPU) a lot of videos, which will get very few views (bandwidth).

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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by ComputerGuru on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:22PM (#16135020)
Not really. It’s the long tail. The most popular videos are (in addition to likely being ultra resolution like vevo media’s) watched many (8-10?) orders of magnitude more times than the least popular videos. Bandwidth matters, cpu doesn’t.

It’s actually the same 80-20 rule. Eighty percent of the costs come fro serving twenty percent of their videos:)

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