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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by alt227 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:14AM (#39315569)
Doesnt change the required infrasctructure. On Stranger Things premiere day you still have to have the download infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of downloads simultanesouly.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by righthand on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:30AM (#39315767)
Not necessarily, you need one download then theoretically torrents will do the rest. People don’t download directly from Netflix.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by gchamonlive on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:32AM (#39315784)
Just to add to it, torrent isn't piracy technology, it is just a sharing protocol. Netflix could very well leverage that to lighten distribution load. Didn't think of that, nice catch.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by alt227 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:47AM (#39315976)
Im pretty sure that would be illegal, but even if not there would be such pushback at using customers own bandwidth to distribute their own content.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by ndriscoll on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:12AM (#39316271)
World of Warcraft was distributing updates as torrents 20 years ago. It was fine.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by gchamonlive on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:49AM (#39315996)
Netflix for instance running their own tracker, then clearly advertising an advanced tier with lower pricing, with good documentation on how to set up, is just enough
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by TheBigSalad on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:09PM (#39321096)
It's actually pretty wasteful that it doesn't work that way.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by alt227 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:45AM (#39315956)
You cant simply start using your customers bandwidth to distribute your own content.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by righthand on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:24PM (#39317507)
Who said Netflix was offering the torrent?
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by maedla on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:16AM (#39316335)
just throw it in the TOS >:^)
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by gchamonlive on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:29AM (#39315760)
It shifts the transcoding load to the user and it loads the movie async so you don't need the full bandwidth, so of course it changes the required infrastructure needs.
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by alt227 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:45AM (#39315943)
If I understand correctly streaming seervices dont transcode. They hold different versions of the same media to directly play the sppuroted version to the client
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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by jitl on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:58PM (#39319736)
> They hold different versions of the same media to directly play the sppuroted version to the client

those different versions are transcoded from a mezzanine source, by a massive system, which is the subject of the OP. you can't just write off the main task from the discussion

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Re:Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microse... by tatersolid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:42AM (#39369161)
The 4K mezzanine source will typically be very high bitrate, perhaps 1 TB or more. So big that it cannot be repeatedly “distributed to clients for transcoding”.
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