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Is YT so impoverished they can't manage some sort of negotiation mechanism that includes x264 and makes it work?

• treflop 3y ago
  That might be more on the browser that you’re using. It might be saying “yes I can play this format” to a format it can barely play.
• hinkley 3y ago
  They encode videos ahead of time and they likely decided that whatever hardware you’re judging them by is only .9% of the market so fuck those guys. Big companies use percentages in places they shouldn’t and it gets them in trouble. .1% when you have a billion users is a million people you’re shitting on. For me that might be a dozen people. Very different.
  • wonnage 3y ago
    Encoding and storing billions of videos in a format used by 0.1% of users feels like a waste though
    • hinkley 3y ago
      The context above was exclusion of people based on income level.
    • geraldhh 3y ago
      robustness is only wasted if you're lucky
• ogurechny 3y ago
  Supposedly, the whole point of Google financing “open codecs” was for them to break free from MPEG codec licensing. I imagine the total amount of fees had a lot of zeros. So, yes, each time they don't serve H.264 (unless absolutely required) results in saving a lot of money.
• geraldhh 3y ago
  every yt video is available as x264 but vp9 is cheaper (smaller) and has better quality