Comments on: YouTube testing even higher quality videos

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:29:48 +0000

When i put &fmt=22 the quality gets lower.

By: willdibbern

willdibbern — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:41:14 +0000

agreed!

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:21 +0000

Audio? 99% of the music on yuotube is mono, who want to listen to music in mono? And who cares if it’s in sync when mono sound is much worse for music enjoyment, with music the synchronism is less important, not to mention that such issues are probably present in the original video to begin with.

By: willdibbern

willdibbern — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:03:29 +0000

@plague420, same thing up until today. videos are loading insanely faster now adays for no reason I can tell.

@edward nardella, I have 6 computers in the apt and they all played the same way, slow. 20mb down, 2mb up confirmed by downloading msdn stuff AFTER trying to do youtube with NOTHING else running. Lots of others these last few months were having problems, check youtube’s help site.

By: Circs

Circs — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:02:58 +0000

Now if only flash on linux wasn’t so resource intensive. My main rig plays those just fine in linux, but the little old sempron in the living room doesn’t do so well under linux.

So Adobe I’m putting the blame for this stuttery video at your feet.

By: bountyx

bountyx — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:44:24 +0000

that was an inspiring video. i want to go to japan now ^_^

By: mesoiam

mesoiam — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:08:50 +0000

I hope they find some way to keep the audio in line with the video, it’s the most annoying thing when it slips out of sync, especially when watching music videos.

By: Edward Nardella

Edward Nardella — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:14:06 +0000

@andrew
And this is unfair because?

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:39:25 +0000

Seems indeed that if you add 22 and it’s not available it jumps to low quality even if the 18 quality is available, they need to redo their scripts to jump to the 18 if 22 is asked but not available, but manually adding 18 or 22 is of course not officially supported anyway, so I wonder if they will fix that, perhaps they prefer you to log in and set HQ in settings rather than using scripts or plugins.

By: Plague420

Plague420 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:50:07 +0000

I have noticed slower youtube speeds as well, some videos buffer fast/normal, while other videos of shorter or equal length buffer slower or stall. I always thought it was because different videos were hosted on different servers that were farther away from me or under a heavier load.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:15:21 +0000

Great, however the problem with YouTube isn’t the quality but he length of time. Having a 12 minute video rejected because it’s two minutes too long is just lame.

Having to have an account with over 10,000 views before you qualify for an account which can upload longer video is equally lame.

They say it’s because of people uploading illegal content however I call BS, it’s all about pandering to the big media companies and giving them privileged access, over us people with little money.

By: _matt

_matt — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:38:23 +0000

it took forever to buffer, but holy shit that was one of the most awesome videos I’ve seen in a long time.

By: themassakr

themassakr — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:39:23 +0000

Matt has the best videos on YouTube!

By: joe

joe — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:23:12 +0000

Great, now if only adobe would make flash for linux not crash every time you try doing it.

By: lordspace

lordspace — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:42:56 +0000

:)
The quality is very good.
The main person in the video is so consistent with his dance :))) cool.