System Design Visualized
Lesson 14.4

Video transcoding and the DAG model

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A recorded video is in a raw format that takes huge space: an hour of HD video at 60 frames per second can take up hundreds of GB. Transcoding (encoding) converts it into other formats. Why it matters:

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