[maxmcd]

If you're all connecting directly to a streaming server (instead of using something p2p), the server will have 10 connections for inbound video feeds and then 10*9 open outbound video connections to send each video to each client connection.

[tydok]

> 100 outgoing video feeds. Not many machines can encode 100 video feeds in realtime

The server will send 9 video streams to each connection, but it has to process only 10 video streams since it will send the same video data to all clients, if we ignore client bandwidth.

[swsieber]

> if we ignore client bandwidth.

The parent post explicitly took the client bandwidth into account, that's why it was 100 instead of 10.

But your point about 10 vs 9 still stands. Still, 81, and if you bucket into 3 tiers, that's still 27. Which at least scales linearly instead of quadratically.

[tydok]

Exactly. It scales linearly, not quadratically. I forgot to mention that since clients do the "original" encoding, the server actually does less work (regarding resolution tiers).

[maxmcd]

agreed. do not agree with OP that all 100 require transcoding