alt Hacker Newsyoure still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the cheap part
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cortesoft • today at 5:02 AM
Maybe they just don’t do that if you don’t have any streamers.
Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.