How Facebook encodes videos

Re:How Facebook encodes videos by jeffbee on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:30PM (#26937732)

And yet, despite YouTube's abundantly clear motivation for doing so it took them years and years to develop the hardware and it only recently hit production. Could it be that acceleration for video encoding isn't as easy as people are making it sound?

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Re:How Facebook encodes videos by dylan604 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:03PM (#26937952)

I'm waiting for the "meh, i could roll it out in a weekend" responses.

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Re:How Facebook encodes videos by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:31PM (#26938123)

Of course I could;) It would just be hacky, ugly, unreliable, scale badly, use either GPUs or inadequate FPGAs, and fall over once it exceeded 10 users. My resume doesn't need to know that, though:)

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Re:How Facebook encodes videos by dylan604 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:52PM (#26938202)

You now know 1 way of not to do it.

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