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 @aral Obviously, the cost of allowing concurrent streaming of large videos is high and would increase the cost for someone running a Mastodon instance. I do think these limits make sense. Not sure if the values are ideal but there should be a small limit to make possible running a Mastodon instance on a low cost set up. 4 comments
 @aral @mastohost We did historically up the limits when a new generation of iPhones dropped because ideally mobile videos should just work but it’s complicated, the bigger they are, the more resources it takes to process it server-side. @Gargron @aral @mastohost I wonder if it is possible to downsize videos clientside efficiently to save server resources.
@SuperDicq @aral @mastohost Probably not in the browser, though native apps should be able to |
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@mastohost Don’t disagree. I do wonder, however, if more processing could be done server side so that a < 30 second video captured on a modern mobile phone fits the limits (the issue is that modern phones have stellar resolution so they’d need to be resampled/recompressed).