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		jared314 on Dec 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Realtime encoding - over 150x faster It is not faster, just parallel processing with the upload buffer. This would be a nice feature to add to most web servers/web scripting environments.

felixge on Dec 20, 2010 [–]

The fact that it's not actually faster is the entire beauty of it. While our competitors have been super busy to actually make their encoding faster, we have just taken a huge bite of free launch by making the encoding happen in parallel.

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