Will youtube just continue adding more and more storage indefinitely or will they just say "fuck it" at some point and start deleting the oldest, least popular or unpaid videos?
Will youtube just continue adding more and more storage indefinitely or will they just say "fuck it" at some point and...
Jackson Thomas
Liam Mitchell
They don't add and add storage, its all in the cloud dummy.
Luis Bell
This will seriously compromise their leadership.
Caleb Bailey
Jaxson Price
Data is their revenue stream. Having all of it, always, forever is what they require to stay alive. They WANT you to upload more garbage to their platform, so they can leverage it
Mason Gomez
old videos take up the least storage. Newer, 0 views videos should be the first ones to get deleted
David Robinson
Storage doesn't cost anything
They also compress older videos and they all look like shit
Cameron Hernandez
Storage is dirt cheap for consumers, imagine how much cheaper it is for a mega corp ordering ships full of harddrives, why would they care about adding more and more?
Jonathan Young
They will hit physical limits at some point.
Thomas Moore
>They also compress older videos and they all look like shit
Samuel Brooks
They use really fast computers to unzip old videos, if they get requested
Anthony Price
At one point they'll lose a shitload of data in a tragic """accident.""" Luckily for them it will only be data that they disagree with or have datamined for all it's worth and then some.
Nathaniel Howard
Why would it need to be a tragic accident? They are already free to delete whatever they want.
Hudson Cruz
public image
Lincoln Morris
Not true. Space is expanding. They'll just buy more data centers. And if the earth ever would get overbuilt with data centers both on land and in the oceans then they'll shoot out their servers up in space as satellites or on comets ot even other planets.
Aaron Smith
>zipping video files saves lots of space
David Morales
zipping highly entropic data
Ryan Clark
>compressing compressed videos saves lots of space
Evan Lewis
The public would support them if they started to delete nazi shit. Besides, even if they didn't, yt is too big to fail.
Aiden Rodriguez
There's got to be a point where hosting shit like this just isn't worth it anymore.
They've got it, so why isn't youtube profitable?
Blake Carter
You can save a bunch of space when going from x264 to x265. When you assume that Google has some clever compression algorithms and aren't that worried about quality, then yes it can save space.
Michael Robinson
Jow Forums is way to conservative when it comes to stuff like this. You fuckers seem to not understand the absolute shitload of storage Google has.
Ayden Robinson
Especially since with the way this universe works you can theoretically store so much information in so little space that storage isn't a problem anyways.
Jace Wilson
It actually does.*
* Under very specific circumstances that certainly don't apply to YT or any other video platform.
Joshua Rodriguez
>suddenly all fags that use a shitty phone to watch youtube have constant stutters
Jeremiah Gomez
YouTube is profitable. Prove me wrong
Andrew Torres
>pic
>entropy
Wow, another analogy of entropy that doesn't understand what entropy is.
Ryder Ortiz
>deleting the oldest videos
20 old videos take up less space than 1 new video. People uploaded shit in 240-360p back then.
Cooper Ward
this, you'd probably wipe out the first couple years of youtube before you even save enough space to cover a week of modern youtube
if there were tight on space, they wouldn't be offering 8K video hosting, which basically nobody can view
Camden Brooks
*old phone
H265 is always going to be hardware decoded, and unless your crappy phone is too old to have HW H265 it should all play even on low end shit
Jaxon Wood
Luckerly there is enough clouds in the sky
Chase Jackson
based brainlet
Wyatt Watson
Apparently they're already doing things like removing high-quality copies of old, less popular videos.
Henry Long
Most retarded question i've seen asked in earnest in a long, long time. GTFO off my board
Carson Cox
How can entropy be reversed?
Xavier Edwards
Well, technically you aren't compressing compressed data, when transcoding AVC to HEVC (or between media coding formats in general). You decode (uncompress) the video, before feeding the uncompressed data to the new encoder.
Nolan Wilson
just turn it around, lol
Luke Russell
Case in point: Alex Jones channel, 10k+ videos. Gone.
Nolan Thomas
You're taking an already lossy video stream and losing more data in the process.
Transcoding is not compression, which people usually regard as lossless.
Thomas Carter
not him but;
>Transcoding is not compression
no, but it can be, namely transcoding from an uncompressed format to a compressed one.
>, which people usually regard as lossless.
"compression" alone doesn't imply lossless or lossy
that said, going from lossy x264 to lossy x265 (they both support lossless modes, which youtube doesn't use) is transcoding, and will incur some quality loss as it is necessarily a lossy process, it is not compression alone, but involves compression (transcoding means decoding something then encoding it again in another format, in this case, the new coding is compressed, so compression is involved)
Ethan Wright
>Transcoding is not compression
That's what I mean. It's the process of de- and recompression (also implies that the output uses a different compression algorithm than the input).
>which people usually regard as lossless
The distinction between lossy and lossless compression is pretty well known (at least on a technology board).
Colton Edwards
they should delete those ELSA X SPIDERMAN WEB GOO FUNNY KIDS spam videos
Landon Watson
Operation Blue Clear Sky activate!
James Ross
>10k+ videos
Holy fuck. That guy might've been a piece of shit but one can't accuse him of being lazy.