Streaming uses a lot of CPU and is slow

[shimberger]

Look into the following options:

• compare source / target encoding to maybe skip transcoding all together
• get HW acceleration to work
• use different profiles / resolutions
• use bigger HLS chunks
• batch multiple HLS chunks together

[elico]

@shimberger Did you had any time to read or test about this issue?

[shimberger]

@elico I have not. Are you interested in helping out?

[elico]

@shimberger I am not sure what you or others consider as high CPU usage.
In streaming and compression there is always a conflict between CPU and DISK.
You can spare one with the cost of the other but cannot spare both.
There is a talk which gives couple good points about this issue and there is a link to it in this git:
https://github.com/elico/nginx-hls-dash-stream-example