Re:Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
by Almondsetat on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:40AM
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You can chain MP4 containers without re-rendering anything. It's extremely quick and computationally inexpensive. Of course at such a scale it might still cost a lot in the absolute sense, but I'm pretty sure it would be balanced by the increased revenue
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Re:Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
by ggeorgovassilis on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:48AM
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I understand Youtube uses a variety of codecs and encoding parameters to serve videos to a multitude of platforms and clients. Maybe there are restrictions on some clients that force Youtube to pick a codec for them which makes ad embedding unprofitable. Circumventing embedded videos would then be as trivial as faking a particular client signature.