In my case, I was already paying for this VPS to host other services, so the cost of adding peertube was essentially nothing. The server has enough storage and bandwidth to support dozens of users and hundreds videos, so the cost per person would be pretty low.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There’s a cost to doing the (re)encoding & storing multiple version of video. It’s relatively not more data to send one codec versus another, but storage & processing aren’t free either (especially with AV1 requiring hardware encoding unless you want to grind forever on a file).

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Oh I see, you're referring to the HLS and WebTorrent formats.