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How low is super low and what's the picture quality like? Could it be they're trying to save bandwidth?
by jplayer01 6y ago
How low is super low and what's the picture quality like? Could it be they're trying to save bandwidth?
- motbob 6y agoThe best definition for "super low" that I can come up with is "bitrates at which x264-encoded content becomes hilariously unwatchable." I will try to be more specific. Youtube uses x264 to encode videos at a certain bitrate. Were you to encode the same video with libaom (AV1) at the same bitrate, the quality difference would probably be noticeable to a casual viewer. If you were to cut the bitrate in half and run the same comparison, the quality difference would be extremely noticeable to a casual viewer.
- ehsankia 6y agoThe article has a gif showing this. The right side is hilariously blocky, while the left is decent. Visually, from experience, it looks like somewhere between 100 to 200 kbps. EDIT: Err, I'm stupid it says 30kbps right there. Though that definitely looks closer to 100 to me (unless framerate is lower)