You do encoding once, you pay for space/bandwidth forever. Same logic that Youtu...

josteink · on Feb 6, 2019

For the scene BW costs are largely distributed so it doesn’t matter.

Being furstcwith the release is. And then you don’t want to spend 10x-50x more time on your encode.

The incentives here are nothing like YouTube.

babypuncher · on Feb 11, 2019

>10x-50x more time on your encode.

x265 is nowhere near that much slower unless you are using a very high preset. Even preset #9 ("slow") is only about 2-3x slower than x264, in my experience.