Optimizing streaming media workflows to reduce your carbon footprint: Part II — Codecs and implementation

This article discusses how to optimize streaming media workflows for sustainability and reducing carbon footprint, focusing on selecting video codecs and configuring AWS Media Services efficiently.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Considerations for selecting video codecs, including tradeoffs between compression efficiency, data transfer requirements, device compatibility, and energy usage for encoding/decoding
• AWS Media Services features that can help optimize workflows, such as MediaConvert's automated adaptive bitrate encoding and MediaPackage's just-in-time packaging and origination
• Using proxy metrics like total encoded video minutes, bitrate, and data transfer to track and improve sustainability of media workflows
• The conclusion that there are often tradeoffs when optimizing for sustainability, and the need to evaluate the overall costs and benefits for each organization's specific requirements