[Ecco]

Using raw uncompressed bitrate is a bit disingenuous. How about comparing an older, widely supported codec like H.264 as a baseline?

[gblargg]

If you compressed it with H.264, it wouldn't make much sense to send it remotely to be encoded with a better codec.

[Dylan16807]

Why not? If h.264 is the best you can do with minimal resources, you can give it 5x the final bitrate and send it to a specialized/beefy encoding system to become something better.

[overfeed]

> Using raw uncompressed bitrate is a bit disingenuous

It is not disingenuous given the context. Gp was responding to ggp's hypothetical:

>> Is there a compelling reason encoding needs to be done locally?