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Re:How Facebook encodes videos by astrange on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:50AM (#26952473)
Video encoding isn't GPU-parallelizable. It's a good fit for either CPU+SIMD or custom ASICs. It's just a kind of compression, which means it's based on unpredictable if-statements, which is just what GPUs don't do.

You can mass parallelize it by encoding different clips on different CPUs, this is more optimal because it has less communication overhead.

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