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That's a very primitive approach. Once you're dealing with adaptive formats (DASH, HLS) containing multiple renditions (different bitrates) and/or codecs, it ge

by matvp 4y ago

That's a very primitive approach. Once you're dealing with adaptive formats (DASH, HLS) containing multiple renditions (different bitrates) and/or codecs, it gets more complicated. I get that a single h264 codec/mp4 (webm) container file is easy enough as it is widely supported but once you're dealing with larger video's and getting them served over different connection types/speeds, it gets trickier. Atleast with services like Vimeo/YouTube, you don't have to bother too much.

chii 4y ago
> Once you're dealing with adaptive formats (DASH, HLS) containing multiple renditions (different bitrates) and/or codecs, it gets more complicated. but why does it need to have all these different formats and bitrates?
- gruez 4y ago
  >different formats varying devices/platforms support varying formats >bitrates so some guy on watching on a 3G connection doesn't need to watch your 4K stream.
  - chii 4y ago
    Fancy features will cost more. But just a plain old video file on s3 works fine enough for must purposes.
judge2020 4y ago
Well, that's what they sell. Vimeo charges reasonably for transcoding and storing all these different versions of videos. YouTube does it for free to stifle competition and stay the only place advertisers can go if they want a captive audience (with TikTok and Facebook, both also free, being their only real competitors). If I had to actually recommend a service it'd be Cloudflare Stream[0], which allows you to upload videos, CF transcodes them, and you get a link to a page with just the video player[1], and they offer options like only allowing embeds on certain origins and disabling/enabling MP4 downloads. The pricing is fairly reasonable as well at $1 per 1,000 watch minutes and $5 per 1,000 minutes of stored video. 0: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ 1: https://watch.videodelivery.net/b9d528d5eece459b80113823cefd73d9 https://watch.videodelivery.net/b9d528d5eece459b80113823cefd...

by matvp 4y ago

chii 4y ago

> Once you're dealing with adaptive formats (DASH, HLS) containing multiple renditions (different bitrates) and/or codecs, it gets more complicated. but why does it need to have all these different formats and bitrates?

gruez 4y ago
>different formats varying devices/platforms support varying formats >bitrates so some guy on watching on a 3G connection doesn't need to watch your 4K stream.
- chii 4y ago
  Fancy features will cost more. But just a plain old video file on s3 works fine enough for must purposes.

judge2020 4y ago

Well, that's what they sell. Vimeo charges reasonably for transcoding and storing all these different versions of videos. YouTube does it for free to stifle competition and stay the only place advertisers can go if they want a captive audience (with TikTok and Facebook, both also free, being their only real competitors). If I had to actually recommend a service it'd be Cloudflare Stream[0], which allows you to upload videos, CF transcodes them, and you get a link to a page with just the video player[1], and they offer options like only allowing embeds on certain origins and disabling/enabling MP4 downloads. The pricing is fairly reasonable as well at $1 per 1,000 watch minutes and $5 per 1,000 minutes of stored video. 0: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ 1: https://watch.videodelivery.net/b9d528d5eece459b80113823cefd73d9 https://watch.videodelivery.net/b9d528d5eece459b80113823cefd...