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The thinnest video on YouTube [video]

86 points by popcalc 4y ago

eyilmaz 4y ago
Doesn’t work on my IPhone.
- foobarbecue 4y ago
  Also didn't work on Android. I just got the last frame of the ad that preceded the video shown the whole time. Which is in of itself kind of an interesting bug!
- juiiiced 4y ago
  This seems to have crashed my iPhone 13 Pro MAX. Screen froze on youtube app when i minimized the video. Cannot power off device ... Update: seems to have recovered. every time I minimize the video in the app it freezes the video or crashes the app
- blamazon 4y ago
  Same here. 12 mini, tried in safari and YouTube app.
owenpalmer 4y ago
This would be a great rick roll opportunity
nathanvanfleet 4y ago
widest???
- avelis 4y ago
  He did say it was very thick
avelis 4y ago
The Theater mode works fine on web. Default mode on the web breaks the UI. Nice!
- krick 4y ago
  Thanks. I couldn't get what's the point, since I'm always on Theater mode anyway.
geuis 4y ago
Doesn't play on iOS.
- least 4y ago
  Plays fine on my iPhone 13 mini. It’s actually quite comical watching it in Picture in Picture mode.
  - jakereps 4y ago
    It works only if I open in a tab in Safari on a 14 Pro. If I just click the link and the app opens it, it shows an error in the player window.
Markoff 4y ago
works fine on my archaic Android 8.1 without gapps in Kiwi Browser with uBo, maybe I should update to some better newer Android and some browser without extensions to experience these bugs?
aimor 4y ago
For me the Seeking preview shows multiple frames stacked on top of each other.
jahnu 4y ago
Why did it take so long to upload? (Works fine on Brave for iOS)
- notpushkin 4y ago
  I guess either he included time required to study YouTube's compression algorithms, or file was just too big. (Maybe you can't just upload the 1920×68 version and have to instead do the 30494×1080? Just guessing.)
  - ilyt 4y ago
    Tried to do that (with y being 240 and x upscaled to max encoder size), also didn't process. Weirdly enough I managed to get halfway done one, I uploaded it, at one point i could watch low res version, then it removed video
squarefoot 4y ago
At least it's not a thin vertical video...
pityJuke 4y ago
He's certainly broken YouTube, although I'm curious how much of the explanation is actually legitimate given this channel's prepensity for... being fictitious [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A
- routerl 4y ago
  The script for this video seems written by an AI or something. The sentence structure is "<state a few facts>, because of this, <other things unrelated to previously stated facts>". He's speaking as though he were explaining something, but he's not.
  - bagels 4y ago
    Yes, the explanation of how colors are reproduced in monitors seemed to be completely unrelated to anything specific to youtube, or this particular video, and was just a bunch of words related to the topic strung together in an unusual way.
  - UncleOxidant 4y ago
    That "the pixels have to agree" part seemed especially bogus.
  - DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
    right? I had to stop watching it about half way in because it became so tedious and nonsensical.
busymom0 4y ago
For me, the video doesn't even fit on the browser (Safari) and I can't even see the content one the right (such as the like button, suggestions etc).
- throatychuckle 4y ago
  Pressing "t" switches to "Theater mode" and shrinks the player to fit inside the window. You should be able to see the like button and other content normally after enabling.
dryanau 4y ago
Works fine on an S21 Ultra. What's he talking about with the yellow colours though??
- bagels 4y ago
  It's just nonsense. He's trying to describe the fact that monitors work by combining red/blue/green in to light that is perceived by the brain as yellow, vs a natural light that is actually one frequency and yellow. https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/color-theory-for-digital-displays-a-quick-reference-part-i.php https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/color-theory-f...
layer8 4y ago
What’s the aspect ratio?
- banana_giraffe 4y ago
  480:17
  - layer8 4y ago
    Someone should buy twelve 21:9 monitors and place them side-by-side to watch the video (almost) fullscreen.
notpushkin 4y ago
CloudTube displays the player of a proper width and maintains aspect ratio, but without controls: https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U Invidious just shows the regular 16:9 player: https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U
- ilyt 4y ago
  I got it crashed on my try https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 ~480:9 ratio, source was scaled to 6300x120 to get it past YT (more optimization possible probably, ran out of uploads) https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR
nsb1 4y ago
I hit 'widescreen mode' and now I can't get back.
umvi 4y ago
Ok so it's an 8K video 100px tall with fake colors and fake 700px height? Interesting video but to be honest I couldn't understand the guy's technical explanation for it at all. It just sounded like mumbo jumbo to me. I mean, I'm not expecting Captain Disillusion-level effort of technical explanation but still... I feel like I learned nothing after watching that video.
- ilyt 4y ago
  Yup, although the "youtube shits out if you just upload long video" checks out I've tried 1920x22px and it just returns "Processing abandoned. The video could not be processed."
  - bagels 4y ago
    1) It's not a static target (they could have patched this hole after the video was uploaded), 2) There is a lot of weird nuance to these containers and codecs that can let you expose deficiencies in video processors.
    - ilyt 4y ago
      True but I managed to upload something else with weird ratio by just experimenting with "big X, small Y". From what I'm guessing there is both limit for too big X and too small Y
ilyt 4y ago
Thumbnail also looks... interesting
richbell 4y ago
On Android, the last frame of the ad that played before the video became glitched and stayed on screen. I could see some of the video "behind" the video box, however, it was tall instead of wide. https://imgur.com/a/qi55Y1p https://imgur.com/a/qi55Y1p
ilyt 4y ago
Here is thinner one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 Had to upscale it to have at least 120x vertical (didn't do exact binary search on that), and on higher horizontal resolution it also appeared to crap out. And I'm out of 24 hour upload limit... No idea how to click the higher rez button but at least ytd works: -> ᛯ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=NtyCyZM6X14 [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading webpage [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest [info] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading 1 format(s): 303+251 [dashsegments] Total fragments: 3 [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm [download] 100% of 86.17KiB in 00:00:00 at 105.60KiB/s [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm [download] 100% of 4.43KiB in 00:00:00 at 20.76KiB/s [Merger] Merging formats into "uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].webm" Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm (pass -k to keep) [02:31:30] ^ [/tmp] -> ᛯ mpv uberstatus\ \[NtyCyZM6X14\].webm (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9 1920x36 50.000fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 1920x36 yuv420p AV: 00:00:09 / 00:00:09 (99%) A-V: 0.000 The original was on 1920x22 but it got a bit stretched in me trying to find the working resolution combination. Probably could go a bit flatter
- tomcam 4y ago
  You nut. I love absolutely everything about this.
kube-system 4y ago
My YouTube app won’t play any videos now. Wow. Edit: rebooting the phone fixed it.
- MarcoZavala 4y ago
bergenty 4y ago
He seems to be talking gibberish.
wodenokoto 4y ago
If you are reading comments first, the video is a wast of time. Doesn't explain what is going on, just a bunch of barely coherent words. I don't understand how this was upvoted by hn community
lionkor 4y ago
Subtitles are absolutely TINY!

86 points by popcalc 4y ago

eyilmaz 4y ago

Doesn’t work on my IPhone.

foobarbecue 4y ago
Also didn't work on Android. I just got the last frame of the ad that preceded the video shown the whole time. Which is in of itself kind of an interesting bug!
juiiiced 4y ago
This seems to have crashed my iPhone 13 Pro MAX. Screen froze on youtube app when i minimized the video. Cannot power off device ... Update: seems to have recovered. every time I minimize the video in the app it freezes the video or crashes the app
blamazon 4y ago
Same here. 12 mini, tried in safari and YouTube app.

owenpalmer 4y ago

This would be a great rick roll opportunity

nathanvanfleet 4y ago

widest???

avelis 4y ago
He did say it was very thick

avelis 4y ago

The Theater mode works fine on web. Default mode on the web breaks the UI. Nice!

krick 4y ago
Thanks. I couldn't get what's the point, since I'm always on Theater mode anyway.

geuis 4y ago

Doesn't play on iOS.

least 4y ago
Plays fine on my iPhone 13 mini. It’s actually quite comical watching it in Picture in Picture mode.
- jakereps 4y ago
  It works only if I open in a tab in Safari on a 14 Pro. If I just click the link and the app opens it, it shows an error in the player window.

Markoff 4y ago

works fine on my archaic Android 8.1 without gapps in Kiwi Browser with uBo, maybe I should update to some better newer Android and some browser without extensions to experience these bugs?

aimor 4y ago

For me the Seeking preview shows multiple frames stacked on top of each other.

jahnu 4y ago

Why did it take so long to upload? (Works fine on Brave for iOS)

notpushkin 4y ago
I guess either he included time required to study YouTube's compression algorithms, or file was just too big. (Maybe you can't just upload the 1920×68 version and have to instead do the 30494×1080? Just guessing.)
- ilyt 4y ago
  Tried to do that (with y being 240 and x upscaled to max encoder size), also didn't process. Weirdly enough I managed to get halfway done one, I uploaded it, at one point i could watch low res version, then it removed video

squarefoot 4y ago

At least it's not a thin vertical video...

pityJuke 4y ago

He's certainly broken YouTube, although I'm curious how much of the explanation is actually legitimate given this channel's prepensity for... being fictitious [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A

routerl 4y ago
The script for this video seems written by an AI or something. The sentence structure is "<state a few facts>, because of this, <other things unrelated to previously stated facts>". He's speaking as though he were explaining something, but he's not.
- bagels 4y ago
  Yes, the explanation of how colors are reproduced in monitors seemed to be completely unrelated to anything specific to youtube, or this particular video, and was just a bunch of words related to the topic strung together in an unusual way.
- UncleOxidant 4y ago
  That "the pixels have to agree" part seemed especially bogus.
- DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
  right? I had to stop watching it about half way in because it became so tedious and nonsensical.

busymom0 4y ago

For me, the video doesn't even fit on the browser (Safari) and I can't even see the content one the right (such as the like button, suggestions etc).

throatychuckle 4y ago
Pressing "t" switches to "Theater mode" and shrinks the player to fit inside the window. You should be able to see the like button and other content normally after enabling.

dryanau 4y ago

Works fine on an S21 Ultra. What's he talking about with the yellow colours though??

bagels 4y ago
It's just nonsense. He's trying to describe the fact that monitors work by combining red/blue/green in to light that is perceived by the brain as yellow, vs a natural light that is actually one frequency and yellow. https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/color-theory-for-digital-displays-a-quick-reference-part-i.php https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/color-theory-f...

layer8 4y ago

What’s the aspect ratio?

banana_giraffe 4y ago
480:17
- layer8 4y ago
  Someone should buy twelve 21:9 monitors and place them side-by-side to watch the video (almost) fullscreen.

notpushkin 4y ago

CloudTube displays the player of a proper width and maintains aspect ratio, but without controls: https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U Invidious just shows the regular 16:9 player: https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U

ilyt 4y ago
I got it crashed on my try https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 ~480:9 ratio, source was scaled to 6300x120 to get it past YT (more optimization possible probably, ran out of uploads) https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR

nsb1 4y ago

I hit 'widescreen mode' and now I can't get back.

umvi 4y ago

Ok so it's an 8K video 100px tall with fake colors and fake 700px height? Interesting video but to be honest I couldn't understand the guy's technical explanation for it at all. It just sounded like mumbo jumbo to me. I mean, I'm not expecting Captain Disillusion-level effort of technical explanation but still... I feel like I learned nothing after watching that video.

ilyt 4y ago
Yup, although the "youtube shits out if you just upload long video" checks out I've tried 1920x22px and it just returns "Processing abandoned. The video could not be processed."
- bagels 4y ago
  1) It's not a static target (they could have patched this hole after the video was uploaded), 2) There is a lot of weird nuance to these containers and codecs that can let you expose deficiencies in video processors.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    True but I managed to upload something else with weird ratio by just experimenting with "big X, small Y". From what I'm guessing there is both limit for too big X and too small Y

ilyt 4y ago

Thumbnail also looks... interesting

richbell 4y ago

On Android, the last frame of the ad that played before the video became glitched and stayed on screen. I could see some of the video "behind" the video box, however, it was tall instead of wide. https://imgur.com/a/qi55Y1p https://imgur.com/a/qi55Y1p

ilyt 4y ago

Here is thinner one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14 Had to upscale it to have at least 120x vertical (didn't do exact binary search on that), and on higher horizontal resolution it also appeared to crap out. And I'm out of 24 hour upload limit... No idea how to click the higher rez button but at least ytd works: -> ᛯ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=NtyCyZM6X14 [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading webpage [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest [info] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading 1 format(s): 303+251 [dashsegments] Total fragments: 3 [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm [download] 100% of 86.17KiB in 00:00:00 at 105.60KiB/s [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm [download] 100% of 4.43KiB in 00:00:00 at 20.76KiB/s [Merger] Merging formats into "uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].webm" Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm (pass -k to keep) [02:31:30] ^ [/tmp] -> ᛯ mpv uberstatus\ \[NtyCyZM6X14\].webm (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9 1920x36 50.000fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 1920x36 yuv420p AV: 00:00:09 / 00:00:09 (99%) A-V: 0.000 The original was on 1920x22 but it got a bit stretched in me trying to find the working resolution combination. Probably could go a bit flatter

tomcam 4y ago
You nut. I love absolutely everything about this.

kube-system 4y ago

My YouTube app won’t play any videos now. Wow. Edit: rebooting the phone fixed it.

MarcoZavala 4y ago

bergenty 4y ago

He seems to be talking gibberish.

wodenokoto 4y ago

If you are reading comments first, the video is a wast of time. Doesn't explain what is going on, just a bunch of barely coherent words. I don't understand how this was upvoted by hn community

lionkor 4y ago

Subtitles are absolutely TINY!