Good video. I thought TH-cam/Google was just being deceptive/trying to save money, as usual; but you provided a good explanation of what they are likely doing. This, along with various compression manipulation, is likely why some videos look so bad on higher resolutions.
Yeah, there's great videos out there on compression, tom scott has one talking about confetti/snow, and someone maybe also tom scott has a nice one on why darker colors compress worse. You may have already seen those :p & while I do tend to treat these large corporations with a good amount of cynicism, I don't think something like this at least in the exact way it works rn would be worth it monetarily for google to do it on purpose just to cut costs (most I think we could say is that if it is a bug they may fix / have fixed it sooner if it cost them more money).
I just watched a video and swapped between every resolution from 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 4k, there was no visible difference, My question is, is it TH-cam or is the Content Creator able to "game" the system and list videos that are not actually 4k, etc...? This video is sharper at 1080p than the other video at 4k, something is up.
Can you point me to the video? Hard to tell exactly what is going on without seeing it, but there could be any number of reasons for that. It is possible to render a lower resolution video in a higher resolution then upload it, but there's no real point in doing that on purpose usually. Sometimes the bitrate can drop from for example snow or confetti, and darker video tends to look significantly worse than lighter video (tom scott has great explainer videos on both of these.) Or maybe the uploader just messed something up. It's surprisingly easy to fuck up video quality depending on what you are doing.
Watch the follow up video for my unscripted commentary on this video and the previous one: th-cam.com/video/WLT4v1fl-2w/w-d-xo.html
Incredibly high quality of the video. Love it
Interesting! It makes sense when you explained it but still very misleading
Good video. I thought TH-cam/Google was just being deceptive/trying to save money, as usual; but you provided a good explanation of what they are likely doing. This, along with various compression manipulation, is likely why some videos look so bad on higher resolutions.
Yeah, there's great videos out there on compression, tom scott has one talking about confetti/snow, and someone maybe also tom scott has a nice one on why darker colors compress worse. You may have already seen those :p
& while I do tend to treat these large corporations with a good amount of cynicism, I don't think something like this at least in the exact way it works rn would be worth it monetarily for google to do it on purpose just to cut costs (most I think we could say is that if it is a bug they may fix / have fixed it sooner if it cost them more money).
Great video, your channel is very underrated! :)
I just watched a video and swapped between every resolution from 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 4k, there was no visible difference, My question is, is it TH-cam or is the Content Creator able to "game" the system and list videos that are not actually 4k, etc...? This video is sharper at 1080p than the other video at 4k, something is up.
Can you point me to the video? Hard to tell exactly what is going on without seeing it, but there could be any number of reasons for that. It is possible to render a lower resolution video in a higher resolution then upload it, but there's no real point in doing that on purpose usually. Sometimes the bitrate can drop from for example snow or confetti, and darker video tends to look significantly worse than lighter video (tom scott has great explainer videos on both of these.) Or maybe the uploader just messed something up. It's surprisingly easy to fuck up video quality depending on what you are doing.
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great video