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Americans who host media servers for friends & family and are forced to use a cable-based ISP, what is your upload/download setup? Also, what is your rationale for your speeds?

Xfinity is not cheap, upload speeds are garbage and although I want my users to have a great experience, I don't want to spend tons of money to host this?

Do you make your users pay for access? That seems pretty shitty imo but I'm hosting encodes (no remuxes) but between my various non-local family members and a couple buddies from college, I'm maxing out my upload speeds and need to figure out what to do.

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[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doing your own encodes is also really cool. I'm not too sure what the AV1 compatibility of your friends' players would be, but yes AV1 encodes are a very efficient way to microsize. If you happen to be on PTP, there's a giant AV1 research thread with people testing stuff out. It looks like they prefer SVT-AV1-PSYEX as of the latest posts, though I don't know enough to understand which encoding settings are the most impactful.

[–] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I would love to be in PTP. Hopefully one day. Just in the mids now like ATH and BLU.

The PSYEX fork of AV1 is what I’m using too. It’s a big improvement over the stock AOM fork.