Google has decided that YouTube demands such a huge transcoding workload that it needs to build its own server chips. The company detailed its new "Argos" chips in a YouTube blog post, a CNET ...

A basic transcoding Golang server that utilizes FFMPEG over the command line - imatefx/ffmpeg-transcoding-server ...

For instance, Google in 2018 started employing "Argos" Video Coding Units (VCUs) for accelerating video transcoding of videos uploaded to YouTube, and we now know more about these new systems.

Transcoding a video to multiple output resolutions simultaneously is part of how YouTube achieves its power efficiency improvements, as it "allows efficient sharing of control parameters obtained ...

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...

YouTube requires such a huge video transcoding workload that Google has decided it needs to build its own server chips. We are all familiar with the specialised GPUs for graphics workloads. Many of us ...

That’s not even considering YouTube Live (imagine all of this transcoding occurring in real-time, with a 100-millisecond delay), making it the world’s largest transcoding project. YouTube’s massive ...