I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

  • @WhoRoger
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    11 year ago

    In real time would mean more cpu usage every time someone plays it. If converted in advance, they only need to do it once with the most effective codecs.