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>What if you have a low powered device that only has a H264 hardware decoder? What if you have two desktops that prefer AV1.

You recode on the server.

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You don't have a server (and in my cases you don't want)

* I don't want to upload my video from my security camera to a remote host. It has security and privacy implications

* I don't have the bandwidth available

* I don't want to pay the bandwidth and compute costs.

* I don't want to incur the extra latency

That's not a good solution for... almost anybody. Most people would rather have the remote server recode, they would rather not have to open ports (with some connections you just can't), they would rather not expose their IP addresses, etc.

I can see your point but it has nothing to do with what platforms like Twitch are for.

You wouldn’t open ports, you are in the same network.

I don’t think P2P is the answer to everything, in the same manner servers aren’t the answer to everything.

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