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It's not so much about it being able to handle 4K, but Youtube already has too low of a bitrate for 1080p (resulting in MPEG artifacts, color banding, etc). So
by jonpurdy 6y ago
It's not so much about it being able to handle 4K, but Youtube already has too low of a bitrate for 1080p (resulting in MPEG artifacts, color banding, etc). So I like to watch in 2.7K or 4K downsampled, since at least I get a higher bitrate.
The bigger problem that I didn't mention is with videoconferencing: FaceTime is hardware accelerated and has no issues with 720p, but anything WebRTC seems to prefer VP8 or VP9 codecs, which fails on my Mini and strains my 2015 MBP. Feels like a waste of perfectly good hardware to me.