Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by jeffbee on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:56AM (#28585345)

I wonder if there is any discussion of whether they could make it cheaper with Google’s compression ASICs, which I assume will be a cloud service at some point.

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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by whoknowswhat11 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#28585426)

Amazon offers something not has fancy (but maybe more flexible?)

VT1 instances can support streams up to 4K UHD resolution at 60 frames per second (fps) and can transcode up to 64 simultaneous 1080p60 streams in real time.

One thing is that a place like netflix has got to have a LOT of target formats (think of range of devices netflix delivers to). ASICS sometimes struggle when faced with this needed flexibility.

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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by kasabali on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:36AM (#28591494)

They could, but picture quality would suffer significantly and they'd have to compensate with bandwidth.

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