Michael Dale <mdale <at> wikimedia.org> writes:
- We are not Google. Google lost what like ~470 million~ last year on
youtube ...(and that's with $240 million in advertising) so total cost of $711 million [1]
How much of that is related to transcoding, and how much to delivery? You seem to be conflating the two issues. We cannot do much to cut delivery costs, save for serving less movies to readers - distributed transcoding would actually raise them. (Peer-to-peer video distribution sounds like a cool feature, but it needs to be implemented by browser vendors, not Wikimedia.)