Redundant Video Encoding
Jan. 16: We're happy to announce that we have deployed a pair of video encoding servers to serve as redundant nodes during peak video encoding periods. This will ensure that during periods when the video encoding queue for your community reaches a maximum (calculated based on video sizes, average queue size, and average video encoding length based of the accumulated file size in the queue), video encoding requests will bypass our standard process and be forwarded to our internal video encoding servers.
These servers are operating on the industry leader, FFmpeg, which handles maintaining aspect rations, 2-pass encoding, and regular interval screenshot generation. While the usage of this upgrade will only be felt during peak periods, we felt it important to support before we reached a point where video's were taking more than 10 minutes to be processed. The faster your videos are embeddable and viewable, the faster your community will grow.
