Mason83 wrote:
On 27/08/2017 19:00, null wrote:
Mason83 wrote:
On 27/08/2017 17:26, null wrote:
So you got that test video I referenced to play before it was removed by
the user, so you were able to get that info from the stats for geeks,
right?
Correct.
In my case, that video, and others that won't play DO show some
geek info, but the line labelled "Mime type" shows no data.
The videos that DO play DO show that kind of data.
Can you play this old video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtMHmyKZa0
It's video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401e" like the one you posted.
Yes, I can play it, but the "Info for nerds" says "Mime type : video
webm codecs='vp8.0 vorbis".
Now why would that differ from what you get, I wonder. One possibility
is that the Youtube error page seems to hint, although without making it
explicitly clear, that Youtube may provide the video in one of several
ways depending on what the viewer has available at their end. Do you
think that this accounts for the different in the details that we each get?
Interesting. It does make sense that Youtube is able
to provide alternative streams for different platforms,
based on their capability... But I had assumed that
these old NBA videos had never been converted to WebM.
Guess I was wrong.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/225685/YouTube_Swiftly_Converts_Videos_in_WebM_Format.html
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-youtube-videos-now-served.html
As you say, contrary to what you thought, those links show that Youtube
was converting everything to webm back then. Interesting to see that
even back then in 2011, there were what in this thread I referred to as
"video wars" going on. Of course, nothing stays the same, that was 6
years ago, new issues have arisen since then.
I tried looking for old videos with few hits, maybe these
have not been converted yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JPITBuJjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEvz394GWD4
For me, these come as webm and play okay in SM. As an aside, and
certainly not wishing to start a discussion about pop music, one of
those links has what looks like a quite old clip of the young Arnel
Pineda, the Filipino singer with the astounding "Steve Perry 2.0" voice,
discovered by Journey and used by them to replace Steve who had retired
from the band. Very into all this, never seen that sort of old stuff,
very interesting.
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