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Re: [rtcweb] Transcoding

Ron <ron@debian.org> Mon, 13 January 2014 05:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Transcoding
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 01:12:30PM -0800, cb.list6 wrote:
> 
> I am not a codec expert.
> 
> But, it is worth noting that transcoding, to the best of my knowledge,
> substantially reduces quality. Any compression creates an approximation.
> Transcoding is an approximation of an approximation, which leads to bad
> quality.  So it is expensive, complex, and poor quality.

That must be why youtube transcodes *everything* uploaded to it.
Clearly they want to provide an expensive, complex, poor quality service
that nobody will ever use.

I'm glad the best of your knowledge has cleared that mystery up for us.

  Crosseyed and painless,
  Ron

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