On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 18:54:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I'm not an expert in videos but as I mentioned I've studied a
few options last year before deciding to use archive.org as our
reference upload site.
I got curious just now, so I just uploaded two screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/x1bsTNf.jpg with archive.org
http://i.imgur.com/CEFCgAi.jpg with youtube.com
Indeed the archive.org resolutions looks visibly better; my
understanding is archive.org is streaming the very mp4 content
I uploaded to it. Could anyone give more detail on what
processing youtube does?
Thanks,
Andrei
My experience with youtbe is that they render the video in
various resolutions. They then try to adapt the user connection
speed by serving a lower or higher quality video.
When you upload the video, at first, only the low quality is
available. Higher quality come later.
