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Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:18PM (#16644554)
I'm pretty sure it would also be more expensive in terms of CPU and potentially disk.
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Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by lloeki on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:21AM (#16646785)
The cost of concatenating two mp4† files is essentially zero. IIRC you can even `cat foo.mp4 bar.mp4 > baz.mp4` and it's supposed to still be valid mp4 (there may be same-codec restrictions, but even resolution can change).
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Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by ptspts on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:58AM (#16647798)
The output of cat isn't valid MP4. The CPU cost of concatenating is small though, it can be done on the fly. Even easier for MP4 streaming (DASH).
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Re:YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay ... by 215163831328308 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:13AM (#16648299)
The cost is not in the CPU, or the processing or the resources. The cost is in the people who leave.
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