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		bendavis381 on Feb 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap Inc. S-1 My guess would be the huge compute power needed to transcode that much video.

ljk on Feb 3, 2017 [–]

and storage, i'm guessing

trhway on Feb 3, 2017 | [–]

video transcoding wouldn't it be better on FPGA or some DSP? and storage - compression? I mean are all those images that different from each other? Different people make photos and videos of basically the same stuff.

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