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What you said isn't true either--and I can confirm it, because two weekends ago I met with the guy who wrote the Youtube video encoder ;) Youtube has no "HD vi

What you said isn't true either--and I can confirm it, because two weekends ago I met with the guy who wrote the Youtube video encoder ;) Youtube has no "HD video"; the "High Quality" mode just sends you to the H.264 video, which isn't there for the primary purpose of being "Higher Quality"--its in iPhone-compatible Baseline Profile, for the purpose of being compatible for mobile devices, in particular phones and such that they intend to provide support for. If Google was really aiming at "higher quality" they would have chosen full-on High Profile H.264, but they intentionally chose Baseline for mobile compatibility. Apparently storage was at enough of a premium that they explicitly chose not to have two formats available, and just chose the most compatible option. The resolution chosen for the H.264 encoder is different because its meant to be targeted at the iPhone. Again, the "higher quality" mode is a secondary feature; the real purpose is to target mobile devices. Edit: Also, reading your post, what you said makes no sense--"they're encoding HD videos at higher resolution", well, obviously, that's what HD means. Are you sure you didn't mean to say "they're encoding H.264 videos at higher resolution"?

nickb 18y ago
what you said makes no sense Everything I said is absolutely correct. It's just that you are misconstruing what I said. Go check YouTube resolutions and then tell me they're not correct. You're the one making spurious connections between television HD and what YouTube calls HD, not me. Again, re-read what I said and not what you think I said. 1) YouTube's SD video is 320x240 2) YouTube's HD video is 448x336 3) Their HD uses MORE bandwidth The fact that they use it for iPhone and who knows hat (G1 maybe) is completely inconsequential since you can play almost any YT video in HD by appending a variable to the end.
- DarkShikari 18y ago
  2) YouTube's HD video is 448x336 "HD" is not an arbitrary term that means "higher resolution than what we had before". Unless perhaps you're in marketing. If you told anyone on the Youtube team that their "&fmt=18" was "HD", they would probably laugh you out of the room.

nickb 18y ago

what you said makes no sense Everything I said is absolutely correct. It's just that you are misconstruing what I said. Go check YouTube resolutions and then tell me they're not correct. You're the one making spurious connections between television HD and what YouTube calls HD, not me. Again, re-read what I said and not what you think I said. 1) YouTube's SD video is 320x240 2) YouTube's HD video is 448x336 3) Their HD uses MORE bandwidth The fact that they use it for iPhone and who knows hat (G1 maybe) is completely inconsequential since you can play almost any YT video in HD by appending a variable to the end.

DarkShikari 18y ago
2) YouTube's HD video is 448x336 "HD" is not an arbitrary term that means "higher resolution than what we had before". Unless perhaps you're in marketing. If you told anyone on the Youtube team that their "&fmt=18" was "HD", they would probably laugh you out of the room.