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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.