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 |  Smith6612Premium,MVM
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North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | Re: WoW watch the video in full screen mode and see if the quality is better  | |
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| | | | Re: WoW said by Smith6612:watch the video in full screen mode and see if the quality is better It's not the best, but a lot better. Still has pixelation problems but hey, it is free and it's getting a lot better. The 720p is probably where there will be even less of a problem.
Note: I watched the above video with the &fmt=18, 1280x800 12.1" screen, so even with that low of resolution the problems were noticable. On my 21" 1600x1200 screen even more so. | |
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| | | Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
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kudos:21 | Re: WoW I watched a few videos on YouTube in 720p and they looked a lot better than the fmt=18 quality. I watched this on a 30" 2530x1600 computer monitor. | |
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join:2004-01-27
Charleston, SC | Re: WoW Yeah the YT 720p looks great on a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. | |
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| | | | |  antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
kudos:2 | Re: WoW Any good YT samples to watch?  | |
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|  TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | Why must everyone complain? Especially the first person to post in a news thread?
YouTube rocks. I use it everyday, multiple times for various reasons.
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| | | | Re: WoW Really?
I barely ever go there. Once a week maybe. | |
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| | | TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | Re: WoW said by LeftOfSanity:Really? I barely ever go there. Once a week maybe. People are different....
In my opinion, the best sites on the internet are this site, wikipedia, youtube and google.... If you don't count gmail as part of google, then that is the fifth site I rely upon heavily.
-Tzale
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| | | | | | Re: WoW BTW - that quote "first they ignore you...." is not from Ron Paul, its from Mahatma Ghandi. Do a search... | |
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| | | | | TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | Re: WoW said by Tenorguy :
BTW - that quote "first they ignore you...." is not from Ron Paul, its from Mahatma Ghandi. Do a search...
I know... Ron Paul 2008 was just a campaign slogan using that quote to express how I felt. I guess I should really take it down anyway.
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| |  sansri88digital is herePremium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
kudos:1 | fwiw the video screen is now in 16:9, they don't stretch 4:3 vids but HD widescreen vids do fill up the whole thing. | |
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| | What about the tin can effect? So, are they getting better audio going yet? I'm sick of the tin can effect where everything sounds hollow and 'tinny.' Nothing like hearing a hit classic rock song get destroyed by a youtube version where the audio is shot. Give me ATLEAST 128kbps stereo MP3 equivalent. | |
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|  53059959Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone
1 edit | Re: What about the tin can effect? thats exactly what the "high quality" setting offers, is 128kbps stereo mp3 audio
this has been around on youtube for a while
unless this has changed, your video has to be above a certain size like 640x480 or something close to that to be upgraded to high quality, otherwise it stays normal quality | |
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| | | | Re: What about the tin can effect? ah okay, thanks. thats good to know. | |
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| Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | The sound is much improved, going from 64kbps mono sound to at least 128kbps Stereo sound. | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by swhitney2003:So, are they getting better audio going yet? I'm sick of the tin can effect where everything sounds hollow and 'tinny.' Nothing like hearing a hit classic rock song get destroyed by a youtube version where the audio is shot. Give me ATLEAST 128kbps stereo MP3 equivalent. Done on purpose to protect online music sales.
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 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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4 edits | Can also make YouTube default to HD if video in that format You can also make YouTube high def video your default - if you login to YouTube and have a profile. It will then show YouTube videos in high def for any videos that support that level of quality.
»www.kottke.org/08/11/high-qualit···deo-hack
Set your default viewing quality to high:
When you're logged in, go to Account / Playback Setup / Video Playback Quality and set the option to "I have a fast connection. Always play higher-quality video when it's available." Example of a YouTube HD video:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2O5n3qouIo
If you want to see it in HD, you may have to go to the youtube link and be logged in. The BBR embedded Youtube in this post might not be in HD.
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| | | Re: Can also make YouTube default to HD if video in that format You have to manually add &fmt=18 still. Looks good though | |
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| | | | Re: Can also make YouTube default to HD if video in that format What do u expect for something free lol. | |
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| Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | For HD in the embedded players, you need to change the player's embed HTML for it to work. However when you do this, it messes up the player little bit and it prevents you from skipping or repeating a scene, and forces you to rewatch the video. | |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18
1 edit | Look for this... When the video starts, look for the small popup and link...
I still miss Stage6.  | |
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| Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21
1 edit | Re: Look for this... That may work, but it may not give the full HD/full HQ video. The fmt=18 or fmt=22 tricks work best. But if that does show, then yes you're right about looking for that. And long live Stage6! | |
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| | |  PashuneCaps stifle innovationPremium
join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS | Re: Look for this... There are many Stage6 alternatives out there but financially speaking, they struggle to stay alive... Well, at least the ones I've tried out. | |
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Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | What a suprise! I posted the news about this on several forums last night, and I wake up this morning to find that DSLR has the news :P | |
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| TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | Re: Looks good said by TOPDAWG:(youtube clip) video looks great. simply stunning....
thanks for posting an example....
-tzale | |
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| | | Both the OP and ED for Spice and Wolf, were very close to artifact free, so kudos to YouTube for testing this.
As others have already mentioned, if people upload their videos at high enough resolutions, then we can expect the general quality of YouTube to improve.
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3 edits | wow, amazing...glad YouTube is going in this direction.
I just hope they don't skip over SD (640x480) though.
I wonder what the audio stats are for &fmt=22?
I know with &fmt=18 the audio is 128 kilobit AAC (stereo) sampled at 44KHz--the video is h.264, 24 FPS, and the bit-rate is approximately 512 kilobits.
having 192 kilobit AAC (stereo) sampled at 48KHz, 30 FPS, and 700-1000 kilobit 640x480 would be pretty awesome, and would be a solid stepping stone for this new HD they're demoing
edit: if you have a YouTube account you can automatically set it to watch high quality videos when available...however, this isn't the most reliable--there's many times where I could watch a high quality video by appending "&fmt=18" to the end of a video and the automatic thing didn't pick it up, so don't count on the high quality automatically to catch everything.
edit: it appears that audio is still 44KHz stereo AAC, but it's now 232 Kbps....I can see people uploading Music to YouTube with a blank 1280x720 video just to upload the highest quality music they can for people to listen to.
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| | | Yes, many thanks for posting a working example. In full screen on my little 1280x800 laptop, this looked close to stuff I shoot in 720p with my Xacti HD1000! I would absolutely love to be able to upload straight to YouTube without having to transcode...
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|  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by TOPDAWG:(youtube clip) video looks great. Looks good, but I'm not sure if I'd call 2.5 Mbps "HD". Technically that's not even SD quality. I mean a 480p DVD has bit rate of 8 Mbps. Maybe I'm missing something. | |
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| divx 6 and h.264 HD divx 6 or h.264 HD are the only ways to go.. they are already defacto HD codecs.. youtube will just have to choose between these two... choosing and obscure codec could have them in a position backing an hd-dvd style format which will leave a vacuum for other content hosting/streaming sites to fill the void and get it right. | |
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| | Or You can ditch youtube, and use Vimeo which already is HD and much higher quality than youtube. | |
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| | | Re: Or but with vimeo you can only upload 500meg or and 1 hd video per week unless you upgrade. i usually only upload 1 or 2 hd videos per week but its a pain waiting a week. sooner or later ill upgrade my account i guess.
i tried to upload a hd video to youtube last night, same one i put up on vimeo and its still only low quality. when i use the &fm=22 it goes to the original version. so i guess its only working for some videos right now. | |
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 TOPDAWGPremium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON | h I wonder how long once all videos are like this will studios start to sue even more. They already hate youtube but god if I can watch a show on there with the bad video quality but if you can make it HD it would not be so bad to watch something. | |
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| | this is good news i'm impressed by the quality of the videos.
it'll be interesting to see if the ISPs start doing more of ther complaining and anti-net neutrality stuff. i know people don't live on youtube, but the increased quality brings and increased bandwidth usage.
it's crossed my mind that there was also net-neutrality reason for doing this now, but that could be considered a conspiracy theory. | |
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| | Vimeo is where it's at Check out the HD stuff over at Vimeo.com and YouTube looks like it's stuck in 2002. | |
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 fireflierCoffee. . .Need CoffeePremium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo | Why bother? In time we'll all be capped so tightly that watching more than three YouTube HD videos in a month will cost an extra $10. 
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|  meowBB
join:2002-01-21
Hayward, CA | Re: Why bother? Exactly! | |
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| | Not HD I just don't think they should claim the label HD. That is a standard by which TV is broadcast compared to SDTV. What they are doing here is just allowing higher resolution formats of data stream.
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YAY CAPS. | |
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | Ugh I guess we're finally starting to see the fruits of the Google buyout; they're now able to take advantage of the fact that they have effectively unlimited bandwidth wheras before the cost of bandwidth was drowning YouTube in debt.
Anyhow, Flash video is already insanely CPU intensive, mostly due to the lack of hardware accelerated overlay support. For example, I can't fullscreen higher quality Flash video because my CPU (a 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo) apparently isn't fast enough.
Pushing Flash video to higher resolutions will only make this worse. I really wish Flash would add support for OpenGL and/or Direct3D as an output layer for video, this would solve so many of these problems. | |
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