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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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