On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 00:31:33 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
This. Vimeo is quite popular, quality shouldn't be a problem and
people aren't going to wait for an hour like with archive.org.
Andrei: I'm about 90% sure you're doing something wrong. I've
never seen a HD youtube video with such low quality.
Either you didn't set the resolution higher (default is 360p or
something), or you have a crappy connection and YouTube refuses
to stream high-quality
(it happened to me a few times that I still got the low-quality
video after setting it to HD - refresh (F5) after setting the
resolution sometimes works),
or as said above you made that screen only a few seconds after
starting/skipping a part of the video.
