On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:39:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/18/14, 12:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-07-18 17:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Somehow the same DConf videos are of better quality on
archive.org than
on youtube.com. Could you explain that? -- Andrei
You're streaming and not downloading from Youtube. I always
download
longer video clips from Youtube. I don't want any buffering
while watching.
Is there an easy way to download off of youtube one of DConf
talks at the same quality as the archive.org content? -- Andrei
Do you increase the resolution of your Youtube videos when you
don't like the quality that it's streaming? It's not clear if
you are complaining about the quality because you're on a slow
network and Youtube is giving you the low-quality encode, or if
you don't like their higher-quality encodes also.
If you click on the Settings icon that looks like a gear below
the video, you can force the quality as high as the original
video uploaded, by changing the default "Auto" resolution mode.
I can't complain about their HD encodes. As for downloading from
Youtube, that's not really officially supported, but scripts/apps
like the one linked earlier will do it.
Have you looked at Vimeo? They're probably the second-biggest
video site after Youtube and are sticklers for quality
resolution, as they used to focus on the indie filmmaker
community, and they officially support downloading videos, if the
uploader chooses to enable that option.
