why? I can stream it from DNLA. I download the untouched files and stream them that way with DeoVR fine. Depends on the bitrate and your wifi of course but most 7K untouched files will stream fine.
Releasing low res the same day or keeping it slow, but quality
alkory Creators who don't know what they are doing can create video files that are not streaming friendly, waste bandwidth or lack comptibility with many devices.
I have never been waiting for any scenes and wasn't even aware of the gap between receipt of the source material and its release caused by the encoding process. I am only looking at the latest releases and I am getting a batch of new scenes every day, so I am totally fine with how things are right now.
On the other hand, I would hate it to have to monitor released scenes over a week to find out if the highest quality version is already available or not.
release the fast one and only encode it to 8k if theres enough loves. It would be a great way of punishing bad quality filming.
alkory The untouched files from SLR Originals, RealJamVR, and PornCornVR are well over 100 mbps. That alone makes them not appropriate for streaming.
alkory There is NO reason not to allow this.
If you can stream them fine, congrats, but like I said before, there are multiple reasons not to allow it.
giving options is always great
...i'm already waiting till a scene has a perfect script anyway so my opinion is pointless really, but for the record i think it would be confusing to have low quality prereleases. It might also devalue the SLR brand. As long as there's a steady stream of releases, it doesn't matter if they're a few days behind when you received them in the office, we still just see quality releases on a regular basis...
Could maybe do a GPU encode of 8K with downloads disabled, then have the CPU encode cooking in the background for a week.
Release all at once, anything else will be confusing and make people think SLR only do low quality videos
Invest in more servers 
I agree. Just get more servers guys. What seems to be the problem? 
obilisk2450 we hit tech cap when adding server does no extra performance. Changing the whole architecture now
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From what you said here it sounds like you can scale horizontally by adding more servers:
doublevr But sometimes, it happens that we receive several hundred encoding tasks within a few hours and it makes everything slower than usual, but most of the time we have enough capacity to process videos at a usual speed.
If you have multiple encoding jobs running simultaneously on the same machine then it would probably go quicker if you do one at a time and queue the others.