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YouTube Opens Up 60fps To Everyone
jones_supa writes Four months ago YouTube promised support for 60 frames per second videos. Back then, the feature was limited to some selected demonstration clips. Now the capability to upload 60fps videos has been opened to everyone. By searching YouTube, a lot of interesting high-FPS material can already be found. For now, some caveats apply though. To watch the clips at 60fps you currently need to use Chrome (further browser support is on the way) and be sure to select 720p60 or 1080p60 from the settings menu of the video player. A fair amount of decoding power is also required, so you will need good hardware. In addition, YouTube says that the content format will be only available on "motion-intense" videos, and the average cat video may not be detected as such. Of course gaming will be the most obvious genre that can take advantage of the higher frame rate.
If you edit the video (even doing nothing) with YT tools, it will reprocess it from the source that's still kept by Google, according to https://twitter.com/Christophe...
Indeed.
So i opened in firefox, watch a little, then opened up in chrome. Initially i didnt' really notice. So i watch a few minutes (nice vid indeed).. then switched back to firefox. Amazing..
It's not only the resolution, it's also that the increased fps visually increases resolution too, and overall smoothness, even color perception (why that latter, i'm not sure).
I admit. I turned from an unbeliever ('my eyes can't see better than 25fps anyways') to a believer. 60fps footage really improves video quality.
A glitch a day keeps the bugs away.
Everyone should just be glad that it doesn't require Google+ integration. Seems like just about everything they do now is getting tied to that millstone in one way or another.
Apparently you missed the memo... Google+ is being deemphasized, and the guy behind it is no longer with the company.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9...
Can someone explain why a video decoder cannot decode at any arbitrary frame rate? The algorithm doesn't change.
...before some browsers are quite ready for it? Who says the Internet is ready for it? Seriously, why on earth should we even be thinking about routinely streaming stuff at 60fps over the internet. If net neutrality has any downside at all, this is it. It's bad enough that Netflix is eating up 30% (or whatever) of the available bandwidth. I'm not saying that ISP's should be instituting fast lanes, etc. But this is just asking for it...
And seriously, it reminds me of the push to put 4K displays on 5 inch cellphones. Really, why? Someday, the infrastructure (or battery tech on phones) will support this kind of thing without a hiccup, but that day is not today. You might say we need things that push the envelope in order to bring that someday into being - but Netflix is doing a pretty good job of that as it is.
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...