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I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but just in case: it is desirable to be able to encode faster than real time (ie: 1 hour of media takes less than 1 hour of time to transcode) so you have leftover processing cycles to do other work.

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This is true. But real time encode is essentially what you need to do with live video instead of VOD transcode. You have other processes doing the other necessary work during the transcode.

All in all, I look for somewhere around 0.25s to complete the rest of the work and deliver the segment to CDN.

I know I know aye, the way I read initially amused me for a moment before my brain clicked into gear :)

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