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Does this mean YouTube's compression settings don't target a specific bit-rate but instead aim to make it "no larger than X and at least y% smaller" than what w
by yanowitz 16y ago
Does this mean YouTube's compression settings don't target a specific bit-rate but instead aim to make it "no larger than X and at least y% smaller" than what was uploaded?
I'm surprised it's not just a pass-through at a certain point (if nothing else, that'd save CPU cycles).
- zokier 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402382 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402382 Apparently it was himself who re-encoded the video, not youtube. Dont know where jemfinch got that info though.
- daten 16y agoAnd youtube serves content in different resolutions (SD vs HD) and formats (flash vs ipod). It's possible his choice of either of these had a negative effect on the quality. It's also possible it all happened during his on conversion on his local machine. I wonder what results he would have gotten if he pulled the h264 copy down that is served to apple devices and uploaded it without modifying it.