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Cargon@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s also the cost to transcode the video and audio streams into different formats so they don’t have to do it on demand whenever someone watches a video. That’s a lot of compute cost plus they have to store all of those additional transcodes which is more storage cost.

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