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by t4c0c4t 2883 days ago
What about encoding? Are you doing that on the device or in the cloud? Curious if there were any latency challenges you had to dig into.
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Thanks for asking. The encoding is on the device, that's right, as most of the times after the upload, the user can play out the video right away, and also to avoid extra work on the cloud transcoder/remuxer. In order to make sure that videos will be playable on all platforms (Web, Android, iOS) I need to transcode or remux, depending on the case (iOS doesn't decode VP8 sadly). :)