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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

That’s still a lot of monthly money for a lot of folks which hurts accessibility for many, not all. The fact that we can’t agree on codecs throws yet another wrench in things as you need multiple resolutions & formats. I’m happy it exists tho & uses distributed serving.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What's the codecs problem?

In my case, I was already paying for this VPS to host other services, so the cost of adding peertube was essentially nothing. The server has enough storage and bandwidth to support dozens of users and hundreds videos, so the cost per person would be pretty low.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

There’s a cost to doing the (re)encoding & storing multiple version of video. It’s relatively not more data to send one codec versus another, but storage & processing aren’t free either (especially with AV1 requiring hardware encoding unless you want to grind forever on a file).

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Oh I see, you're referring to the HLS and WebTorrent formats.

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