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If you're building a product, maybe use a CDN during MVP phase while you validate?

Don't think your end customers will care who's serving the video?

if you mean the ones that do the encoding for you, well, those are not financially viable options. i have my own cdn network anyway.

If you think encoding it all yourself is going to end up cheaper, maybe you havent considered the full cost of:

building maintaining hosting

this piece of work?