6 May
2015
6 May
'15
11:31 p.m.
By the way, would it be possible to allow DCP-o-Matic
find encoding servers outside its own LAN?
With servers like Pi2 powered with a few watts, this would allow us to settle some kind
of worldwide distributed encoding farm.
You need Gigabit-throuput to make this viable.
I thought about cloud-based encoding before (and actually Carl tested it as well a while
ago with digital ocean). The problem is, you need to supply source footage and receive
compressed footage at a very high speed. Most people will not have the necessary
internet-connection to make this work (and upstream will usually be even slower).
It's certainly interesting to hire a very fast compute machine in the cloud for 2US$
per hour and be impressed by the encoding speed for a short demo snippet - but then to
upload e.g. a 25GByte MKV and receive back 120Gigabyte of DCP - that's a different
thing. Upload and download will take much longer than local encoding on 'decent'
hardware.
- Carsten