The Anti-Amazon Alliance

Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by zbobet2012 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:37PM (#23010275)

Your home built video compression software does _not_ achieve the compression ratios of commercial software. Differences can be between 20-50% pretty easily. It also does _not_ have the reliability.

x264 is good but not the benchmark. x265 is simply mediocre.

That aside, as others have pointed out, there is the whole "in the cloud" thing which has to do with global TCO.

Also the pricing you can get of the AWS site doesn't look a thing like what an actual content distributor with 100 of thousands of hours of content gets.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by scarface74 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:12PM (#23010642)

I didn’t say I could do it cheaper. I’m not an expert, I’m sure that BAMTech could.

Also, “the others” that pointed out TCO - was me.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by zbobet2012 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:31PM (#23010851)

BAMTech (now Disney Stream Services) does not build their own video encoder IIRC. That's because encoding costs are a drop in the bucket compared to their distribution costs.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by scarface74 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:03PM (#23011224)

What does them "building their own encoder" instead of using someone else's encoder have to do with whether they do encoding using AWS's managed services or not?

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