‘Good Enough’ Codec Configuration is the second of the four testable projects to emerge from the Greening of Streaming’s LESS (Low Energy Sustainable Streaming) Accord. Faultline’s exclusive coverage of last week’s in-person Brussels meet focused on the Intelligent Distribution Model Shifting project, which was divisive if not anything else. With encoding often seen as the punching bag for energy consumption, given this component’s penchant for triggering chain reactions in power consumption at later stages of the delivery pipeline, this is an opportunity for video compression players to establish benchmarks and level the playing field. It is true that video encoders are often guilty of claiming power reductions in compression that inadvertently (or perhaps advertently in some cases) increase watts later…