Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board
by acdha on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:24AM
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This is correct. I’ve written the JavaScript to select sizes dynamically – it’s 599KB smaller than the 600KB claimed.
The hard part is the transcode infrastructure, and that’s frequently unnecessary for the small videos: if you use multiple sizes and formats, you increase the amount of traffic you need to see cache hits. YouTube has built a ton of infrastructure but most sites won’t see enough return to be worth the ops cost.
The hard part is the transcode infrastructure, and that’s frequently unnecessary for the small videos: if you use multiple sizes and formats, you increase the amount of traffic you need to see cache hits. YouTube has built a ton of infrastructure but most sites won’t see enough return to be worth the ops cost.