Sure it’s old but the stats I posted in a lower comment show that at YouTube’s scale, it makes sense to store.

Sorry didn’t mean to be rude was just being silly

Work in games is popular! For me it plays on the satisfaction of completing a project. A game that does this well I think is Satisfactory.

Post here anyway rule

For what other communities to post this in, maybe !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world. But this one is pretty good

Yeah I replied below with actual numbers

Yeah definitely need to be thoughtful about it but very useful I’d bet

I think you might be underestimating how many users YouTube has! According to this, 720,000 hours per day are uploaded versus 1,000,000,000 hours are watched per day!

Do you have a source? My instinct is the opposite. Compute scales with users but storage scales with videos

Good idea! I don’t have experience with this but I’d bet you can call a script from the narrative for more complex flows like you mentioned.

Are you suggesting they don’t store different versions? This suggests they do.

I believe they store and that’s why it processes lowest res first and works up

Are you wondering if one instance can be spread across multiple machines? I don’t think that’s possible and seems unnecessary. I say that because spreading users onto more instances creates less load on the larger instances, not more. Edit: I guess you can scale instances across machines!

Nice that they can control it more, but I’d bet most companies don’t want to maintain their own instance