Anyone use a Cloud Service for Encoding?
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 2:08 pm
I've been thinking about doing this to have a way to speed up conversions, but haven't given it a try as I keep seeing the horror stories of misconfiguring something in the cloud service (like Google or Amazon) that would cause a huge spike in cost. I used the Google calculator and even checking out a 64 core processor instance would be able $3 to convert about 2 hours of video.
I have a Gigabit fiber connection so I get peeks around 800 to 900 mpbs. So, I think that would be the main limiter in terms of speed.
The plan would be to start up the instance and use the Linux ISO, open the ports for the encoding process and then have my Server feed it frames.
I keep thinking I am missing something, like a bandwidth cost or some weird per gig data transfer cost. Trying to figure out if there is some gotcha I'm just not seeing.
I have a Gigabit fiber connection so I get peeks around 800 to 900 mpbs. So, I think that would be the main limiter in terms of speed.
The plan would be to start up the instance and use the Linux ISO, open the ports for the encoding process and then have my Server feed it frames.
I keep thinking I am missing something, like a bandwidth cost or some weird per gig data transfer cost. Trying to figure out if there is some gotcha I'm just not seeing.