Comment on N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
JASN_DE@lemmy.world 2 months agoSubtitles being “burned into” the frames instead of being a separate track, also known as hard-coded sometimes. This enables one to use subtitles on devices which cannot traditionally use them or screw up the display. But this means the server needs to re-encode each and every frame, which is a massive load on the server.