4k Youtube videos now avaliable!!! 8.8megapixel video wtf

[thescreensavers]

360p doesn't even stream fast enough on their servers, and they want to start pushing 4k bitrates? 😵

Fixed

 

[Wag]

I have a FIOS 35/35 connection, so I can definitely stream 1080p videos (most of the time) with few problems. The CBS.com site I've found seems to have the highest quality 1080p flash streams if you want to check it out.

 

[EarthwormJim]

question is whether its supposed to be like that or if macroblock filtering or whatever is failing at that res.
try it again in vlc, it doesn't look at all that crude on my system.

Could it be from GPU acceleration? My video looks the same as his screen shot.

I have GPU acceleration enabled on my 8800gt.

1080p looks fine though, and all my h.264 content looks fine. It's just the 4k youtube stuff that looks highly compressed and blocky.

 

[0roo0roo]

Could it be from GPU acceleration? My video looks the same as his screen shot.

I have GPU acceleration enabled on my 8800gt.

1080p looks fine though, and all my h.264 content looks fine. It's just the 4k youtube stuff that looks highly compressed and blocky.

yea i'm thinking its that. when it looks so oddly unfiltered blocky its not normal at all. even highly compressed stuff shouldn't look that jagged, even artifacts should be filtered normally. has to be failure to decode correctly.

 

[Cheesetogo]

yea try the 1080p version of the same video, you'll notice that even where it macroblocks, vlc will smooth things out, so it doesn't look hideous, never mind the rest. i think the decode is failing in some way on these 4k videos in vlc.

Yeah, VLC screws up 1080p movies for me all the time. I probably have something misconfigured, but I'm not really sure. I never use the program because of it though.

 

[0roo0roo]

i resorted to vlc because mpc and coreavc fail on the videos. but yea, vlc is lacking in completeness😛 always the backup player

 

[KLin]

Runs fine on my w3520 @ 4ghz and GT220

 

[brblx]

uh. youtube can't load a 320x240 clip or whatever 'standard' used to be without buffering. maybe these diptshits should work on their servers, instead.

 

[Adul]

runs fine on my 1090t and 8800gtx

 

[duragezic]

Cool I guess, but no real practicality from it.

On my dual core Opteron @ 2.7ghz, it runs quite choppy. Probably 10-15 fps.

It wasn't instantly playable, but it buffered extremely quick which is weird since sometimes 480p videos take forever to buffer.

720p is plenty for me, and I use 480p 99% of the time. One of my favorite Youtubers (nutnfancy) only uploads in 480p because he says the processing and upload time just gets crazy when in 720p (cause he makes long as shit videos).

I'd like to see them get the streaming faster so at least 720p streams without more than a few seconds buffering.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I saw an article about this sometime last week and thought it was somewhat cool but pointless for the reasons people have already stated. There's been a bunch of 1080p videos that people said looked great, especially full screen and they looked not very good. Sure might have looked a bit better than average lower res videos but did not do even streaming HD justice at all.

Like audio, garbage in, garbage out, and just because its 1080p/FLAC doesn't mean the material actually does that potential level of quality justice.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Who cares what the resolution is if the compressions is still so horrendous? Those 4k videos don't even look nice because of the awful compression.

 

[ImDonly1]

Works for me on a q6600 with the latest flash 10.1. No choppiness. The violin one stays at 24 fps. The one about the dog was at about 20 fps instead of 24fps, but still smooth and unnoticeable.

Videos from here http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BF9E09ECEC8F88F

CPU use at about ~55% with some other minor stuff in the background.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea but what video card.
its possible to play back smooth without correct post filtering or whatever it seems. the bitrate is so low that it doesn't seem to hit the processor hard at all.

here is a 1080p high bitrate fan edit girls generation 25in1 music video which is 500mb over 3 minutes. that rapes the processor lol
link


*edit

playing with it a bit more letting vlc not resize it and just have most of it off screen there doesn't seem to be that much jagginess at all in the surf video. there are weird moments of fine detail, then total break up..so its overcompression, but i wonder if poor scaling/processing is also happening.

maybe there are more static scenes.
i'd screen cap, but vlc's snap shot seems to get broken by these videos, it comes out as a narrow distorted strip.

 

[Cattykit]

It just looks terrible. While it maybe 4k, the low bitrate is killing it.
It's like compact and cell phone cams with crazy high resolutions.

 

[ViviTheMage]

uhhh, they have problems with 1080p, get more bandwidth youtube/google 😀