• Support

  • Solving the hosting/bandwidth problem.

petex67 Why do you think they would lose control? As said in my other post, unregistering the torrent from their tracker + using torrents with the private flag would already functionally be the same as removing the file from their servers.

      phiber functionally is not same as actually removing considering the file might still exist in the network.

          petex67 If you don't understand the technology maybe leave the details to others? Private trackers remove torrents all the time and when that happens, they can no longer be seeded by peers either. There is a very short window where if you are already connected to a peer that has the file, after the torrent has been de-registered that you can download from that peer only, but that window is very small. No smaller than the time it would take to tell Cloud hosting to take a file offline. It is functionally the same as removing and it no longer exists on the network, only on people's local drives - which is the same as today.

            Bandwidth and data is cheap these days

            The way to save money is by hosting their own servers and not by using P2P

            Besides, with P2P they wouldn't get juicy analytics

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              They said themselves something like less than 10% of users download Original bitrate files, that's not a ton of bandwidth used up

              They got rid of it to try and convince people to pay for videos that were previously free, AV1 isn't worth paying for by itself so they took away OBR

                  jommy You are just calling SLR a liar. That's not an argument, and even if it was, it's not one you need to have with me - take it up with SLR. I am taking them at face value and providing a technical solution.

                      2Jqt8XuAkwr I am taking them at face value and providing a technical solution.

                      I don't think SLR ever said that hosting of 'Original' HBR files was a cost issue that needs solving. And even if they did, we are talking about 600+ scenes and 50 TB which is a tiny percentage of the total amount of data they are hosting and thus certainly not a cost driver.

                      What creates more costs for sure is providing now AV1 streaming files on top of HEVC for each and every scene. There were like up to 7 different streaming resolutions for HEVC, now it's twice as many for HEVC + AV1. These additive costs for transcoding and hosting cannot be absorbed by putting 1 % of the total data some place else, so the solution to the problem was inventing a new PPV revenue stream.

                      In my view, there was no real need to introduce AV1 streaming at this point, and it has no benefit as long as HEVC streaming has to be maintained in parallel. So if hosting costs are really an issue, SLR should think about putting AV1 streaming on ice until the last Q2 has been scrapped. Btw, on Steam Q2 still is the dominant device with more users than Q3 and Q3S combined.

                          phiber In DeoVR, you can choose either AV1 or h.265 on Q3. Q2 does not support AV1, so I guess that the AV1 option will not show on that device. I don't think that there is AV1 for all scenes on SLR already but I understand new scenes come in both formats for a while now and sooner or later the rest of the library will get AV1 as well.

                            SchnuppiLilac I don't think SLR ever said that hosting of 'Original' HBR files was a cost issue that needs solving. And even if they did,

                            Why are you here? You add nothing to the conversation by ignoring SLR's statements and making up fantasy worlds where your opinion is the "real reason" SLR did something. Maybe you're right, but you're not arguing with anyone that cares.

                            How many more people are going to come to this post to debate SLR's stated goals (who isn't even posting in this thread)? If you want to fight SLR on their decision to pull downloads I suggest sticking with their original post here: https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/9296-av1-is-now-live-on-sexlikereal

                                2Jqt8XuAkwr Maybe you're right, but you're not arguing with anyone that cares.

                                Why do you seem to think anybody cares what you think? You have 18 post on here. @SchnuppiLilac is on here all the time and I have never thought he was out of line. Relax