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astrange on April 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Facebook encodes videos

Cost is the rate. Acceptability and distortion are the same thing (although the curves are different).

pocak on April 26, 2021 [–]

In the article, cost is cpu time, and benefit is file size reduction multiplied by number of times watched.

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