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Re:How Facebook encodes videos by henvic on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:40AM (#26941877)
Your numbers are off. Netflix has more than 36.000 hours of content.
Re:How Facebook encodes videos by viciousvoxel on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:04PM (#26947357)
I don't know the reliability of these sources, but according to one article[1], as of 1 year ago, US Netflix had ~5.8K titles, totaling 36K hours of content. Another more recent source[2] claims that worldwide, Netflix has ~15K titles, so assuming the same distribution of runtimes, it would be closer to 93K hours of content. So, while you're correct, it's still the same order of magnitude.

sources:

[1] https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/how-long-would-it-take...

[2] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/netflix-statist...

Re:How Facebook encodes videos by sandebert on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:04PM (#26944966)
Care to cite a source?
Re:How Facebook encodes videos by henvic on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:35PM (#26949695)
Back-of-the-envelope calculation: a slacker suffering from insomnia watching 5 streams of Netflix at once × 20 hours/day × 365 days non-stop would otherwise watch the whole catalog in less than a year.

Convinced?

Re:How Facebook encodes videos by sandebert on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:44AM (#26953865)
Not really.

If we unpack your calculation to slightly more typical human behaviour: Watching 1 stream × 10 hours/day × 365 days non-stop, one person would need 10 years to watch the whole catalog.

Doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Re:How Facebook encodes videos by henvic on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:11AM (#27036718)
You didn't get the core idea of my calculation: to show that Netflix has times of magnitude more than just 36k hours of content.