[dougbarrett]

+1 for HLS. HLS is an important aspect in saving money while using the CDN's. They allow for different streaming rates, and the player can download the video in chunks vs the entire video which saves money on bandwidth costs.

Encoding videos is important too, especially if you have users uploading videos, or you are getting videos from different sources, you can never depend on 3rd party sources because they'll always throw a wild card file type at you unexpectedly. If you don't want to do it yourself with ffmpeg, there are services out there like:

https://zencoder.com/en/file-transcoding https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/

[x-curiouscase-x]

Thanks .. This is quite good.