In addition to the sudden burst of transcodes, we found that the player
widget is sometimes aggressively selecting the small size when it should be
defaulting to a larger size.

So we're temporarily disabling the small sizes again;
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/61760 covers checking/tweaking the player to
handle this case better.

-- brion


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:07 AM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> [..]
> >
> >
> > Files should gradually populate at the smaller sizes as they get
> referenced
> > and the new sizes are automatically added to the transcoding queue.
> >
> > Please give a shout if there's any problems.
> >
> > -- brion
>
> Looks like this actually adds them to the queue all at once - 23,386
> 160p videos queued, 11,745 160p transcodes already done (!), which
> means about 85% of all videos are either already transcoded to 160p,
> or in the queue.
>
> This might cause some delays in transcoding newly uploaded files, but
> given that in a single day there's already been almost 20,000 new
> transcodes, it looks like it won't take that long to be done with all
> of them. I'm really quite surprised how fast the transcoding is
> proceeding.
>
> --bawolff
>
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