Comment by operatingthetan

4 days ago

I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?

youre still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the cheap part

  • Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.

    • ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something

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