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Gas Accounting

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Description

The accounting for video transcoding jobs are currently done in 4s segments. There is no enforcement on the protocol level - it's simply enforced by the client implementation of the broadcaster and transcoder.

Segment-based accounting is simple, but not the most appropriate for video transcoding. For example, AWS has a more comprehensive accounting system that takes into account the bitrate and framerate of the video.

Similar to Ethereum gas accounting, Livepeer should have a more appropriate accounting model for video transcoding.

This issue is also tracked at https://github.com/livepeer/protocol/issues/126 and https://github.com/livepeer/protocol/issues/48

Follow the discord discussion here.

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked Livepeer protocol issues 126 and 48, then review the referenced Discord discussion and AWS MediaLive pricing model. Done would require defining a more appropriate video-transcoding accounting model and protocol-level enforcement, but the issue does not identify implementation files or tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
blockchain
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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