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> No one truly knows the depths of YouTube's video codec selection Well, you can get an idea by using youtube-dl to get information for a specific video. For e
by clouddrover 6y ago
> No one truly knows the depths of YouTube's video codec selection
Well, you can get an idea by using youtube-dl to get information for a specific video. For example:
youtube-dl -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw"
> AV1 is experimentally available on YouTube
No, it's in production. You've probably played a lot of AV1 video on your desktop machine without realising it. Firefox on my desktop defaults to AV1. To see which codec you're using, right click on the video and select "Stats for Nerds" from the context menu.
The video above has these three encodes for 1080p video:
mp4 937k av01.0.08M.08 26.12MiB
webm 1411k vp9 39.35MiB
mp4 2696k avc1.640028 75.18MiB
AV1 is the clear winner on file size. The quality is about the same for all three encodes. Each one has different encoding artifacts.