YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if viewers want it. Why wouldn't they? Because the need to buffer the video before it starts playing will change the experience. Hence the experiment, rather than just a rapid rollout of this technology. On stage, he said the current resolution of YouTube videos has been "good enough" for the site untill now.
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Be that as it may, Vimeo is not YouTube...now you see the problem, hardly anyone knows Vimeo; but everyone knows YouTube!
Last edited by mlauzon76 on 16 Nov 2007 - 15:16
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It'll start with something like "The internet is a dead technology..."
so this will mean that uploaders need to use a different format and more time on the internet to upload soon?
Also, some may see their videos at some lame lowres format?
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I respect your opinion on that matter. To me, I still think DivX Web Player better because (correct me if I am wrong) DivX plays AVI directly without having to run it under another level of decoder. My assumption is that the Flash videos does not interface directly with AVI wrapper. The Flash decoder has to decode the video back to AVI to have it play through the windows API. Again, I am not an expert on the video realm. I think that Flash video has it's limitation as oppose to DivX format.
this is good news for 3g handsets because they can pay h264.
n95 tvout pwns
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