[feinte]

If you want your content to be accessible for most people you also need to transcode your video to several resolutions. This coupled with an adaptive bitrate player [0][1] will allow clients to choose the resolution they can afford (so that people with different bandwidth can access your content)

When dealing with more than 10s or 100s concurrent viewers the required bandwidth on your server will be high and putting a CDN in front may be required.

[0]: https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js [1]: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js

[lazyjones]

> If you want your content to be accessible for most people you also need to transcode your video to several resolutions.

Let's be more concrete. How many people will you lose today from your audience if you just offer 720p? Hard numbers please!

[niyaven]

It depends on your market. If you're aiming for people at home in Seoul, yeah that's probably alright. Their connection should be great and stable. If you're aiming at people transiting in Mumbai and watching stuff on their phone in the local train, 720p won't do.

[unicornporn]

> It depends on your market.

I was referring to (small and medium sized) personal blogs and websites (like the one in this post), i.e. not a digital commodity on a market. If you're out there to make money I realize you have to be more fancy with what you put out there.