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YouTube. Im sure this has been a thing for a while... but this is getting out of hand. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/enshittification@lemmy.world
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It'll keep continuing until you get one FPS and no audio without paying for premium.

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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (12 children)

720p is the best fight me

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    On YouTube it’s most definitely not. The quality is shit thanks to their compression.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah it’s not the best. But it never stutters, I can change cell towers on a train, WiFi in the garden, whatever, it’s done

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Clever.

    Since I almost always on VPN, I sometimes go even lower, most long vids and podcasts I play through NewPipe without video at all. The only thing where 1:1 resolution match with the uploader matters for me is tutorials on software usage and coding, where I need to see interface and text clearly. 720p sits neatly between these two, but I am a man of extremes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes, that’s true, the service itself is rather reliable and stable, but that doesn’t really necessitate the low bitrate on 1080p and lower. The resolution itself has often less of an impact on the perceived quality than the bitrate. Especially on mobile

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That’s very interesting! I have just come to this opinion through trial and error o~0

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's fine for most things... I'm trying to remember now what standard DVD definition was.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Nah, 720p is horrible in practice because of the employed bitrate in most cases. But i dont argue against a well encoded 720p file. It can be alright in theory depending on the content.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    DVDs did ~10mbps at 480p using the mpeg2 codec. YouTube doesn't recommend 10mbps until 1080p using x264 (mpeg2's successor).

    DVDs 480p is better quality than YouTube's 720p, and YouTube only gets ahead of DVDs after you switch to 1080p or above.

    Modern online streaming at 4k usually doesn't usually do any better than 20mbps (personal experience). Compressions helps, especially with av1, but for the most part, physical media is worlds better than streaming media is, because unlike physical media, the media companies have to pay for every mbps they deliver.

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