Re:Cold Showers
by bilekas on Saturday June 18, 2022 @04:42PM
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Curious what the setup of VPS' was and why you would expect better than real hardware, video transcoding is quite a beast from what I remember and I just can't imagine there's a VPS solution that expects to keep up
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The Intel Xeon processors that cloud providers typically use don't have the Intel Quick Sync core that provides hardware A/V encoding/decoding on typical desktop/laptop CPU SKUs. So the software has to fall back to CPU-based codecs, which are much slower.
AWS EC2 has a VT1 instance family that enables high-speed A/V encoding via a Xilinx media accelerator card.
IIRC Quick Sync encoded with poorer quality than software; is that not still the case?
AFAIK that should still be the case.