Actually, encoding is my job, for a large streaming company. It depends on quality for what you might use at scale if you are using your own hardware.
We have several HP Moonshot machines, those beasts, using 60 Xeons with Intel QSV, can really munch through video and the quality is good enough. But a Moonshot isn't cheap.
Alternatively there are some very interesting hardware accelerators coming to market which will give you excellent encoding. I have seen 70+ encodes in 1U!
Companies like Arris and Netint are doing very interesting things at high density.
But for high quality we still tend to use pretty chunky cloud instances.
These trays are fun and cheap, yup. Actually I have a half finished SBC cluster in my home workshop, but its a hobby piece, not something I would see in production.
We have several HP Moonshot machines, those beasts, using 60 Xeons with Intel QSV, can really munch through video and the quality is good enough. But a Moonshot isn't cheap.
Alternatively there are some very interesting hardware accelerators coming to market which will give you excellent encoding. I have seen 70+ encodes in 1U!
Companies like Arris and Netint are doing very interesting things at high density.
But for high quality we still tend to use pretty chunky cloud instances.
These trays are fun and cheap, yup. Actually I have a half finished SBC cluster in my home workshop, but its a hobby piece, not something I would see in production.
