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Re:Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting by Apreche on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @08:45AM (#41056486)
Generally when you are hosting videos you don’t pick one set of transcoding settings and stick with that. You transcode many many renditions and then serve up the appropriate one depending on the client. It’s quite difficult and expensive in terms of both processing and storage. This is why it is so difficult to unseat the incumbent platforms like YouTube. It’s also why so few people do this on their own.
Re:Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting by turkishmonky on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:24AM (#41056842)
While not at the same level as any large service, I typically spin off a 720p copy of any media as a background process nightly. 720p is pretty small in comparison to 1080p or 4k source files. This way I have an immediate mobile friendly version I can stream from my phone or load up on an ipad without emptying it's storage, even if the quality is markedly lower.
Re:Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting by Joeboy on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:11AM (#41056733)
If it's public facing, I would think content moderation and copyright enforcement would be the bigger challenge.