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Making sure you can play the video tomorrow in case Youtube arbitrarily decides it no longer likes it or the account related to it get blocked by some automated
by m4rtink 2y ago
Making sure you can play the video tomorrow in case Youtube arbitrarily decides it no longer likes it or the account related to it get blocked by some automated algorithm without any recourse for the author, etc.
- i80and 2y agoI've heard there are also rare but serious issues where YouTube will just let old videos bitrot so they nominally still exist, but don't play correctly.
- Chaosvex 2y agoYouTube bitrot is real in the sense that over the years, they've re-encoded everything multiple times, resulting in older content looking absolutely terrible. This includes dropping higher resolution options. They don't even seem to keep the original source files for subsequent re-encodes. If you watch anything from a decade or so ago, you'd be forgiven for thinking that video content just didn't look very good back then, but no, it's largely down to YouTube compressing them to death since the original upload.
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- angry_moose 2y agoYeah, there are quite a few RedLetterMedia videos that are no longer available because the director copyright strike'd them to death.