Video processing in Hyper 8
On platforms like YouTube you upload a video, usually in the highest possible
quality, and then it is automatically processed on their servers. After a
while it is then available for streaming in different resolutions (e.g. 1080p,
720p, etc.).
Hyper 8 prioritizes your independence, self-control and sustainability, and therefore it works a little differently:
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Your videos are processed on your computer.
This ensures that you never depend on infrastructure you don't control, and it means that you don't even need an internet connection to build your site.
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Your videos are only processed when you request it.
This ensures that your computer is only processing videos (which can take a long time) when you don't need its processing power for other things.
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Your videos are only processed into the formats (resolutions, quality) you want.
This ensures that you have a say over how much storage your videos use on your computer and server, how much bandwidth they use when they are being streamed, and how much heavy lifting your computer needs to do to compute these different versions of your video.
Over the next pages we look at this in practice.