YouTube to Get High-Def 1080P Player

Uncle said:
You might not have to worry about Flash, if you read the article till the end.

"Other changes afoot at YouTube: The team remains interested in a non-Flash video player. "We're interested in broad accessibility," Walk said, reminding the NewTeeVee audience that the company has demonstrated an HTML 5-based YouTube player. "We keep an open mind," he said
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That will be amazing; flashless web will be so nice.
 
It's NOT high definition if the bitrate sucks. Judging from the 1080p example pic it really does suck. But, hey... it's free, so what the heck.
 
Serpico said:
HTML 5!

My only worry is that Microsoft will fuck up adoption of the new standards in IE compared to the other browsers out there. Please don't let this happen!
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Yeah this is fully what I expect. HTML 5 will be awesome and wonderful, but IE will have a horribly broken implementation of it for 8 years afterwords and no one will ever use it.
 
This is going to be bad for employers. Employees using a ton of bandwidth and bringing their computers to a crawl.
 
Jakalwarrior said:
This is going to be bad for employers. Employees using a ton of bandwidth and bringing their computers to a crawl.
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at my office we have a 1.5mbps dsl line for about 15 people. we don't need 1080p youtube streams to bring it to a crawl :p anyway, I'd imagine that most employers either block youtube or use bandwidth limiting to stop this from happening.
 
Even with a fast broadband connection, do all of your videos take forever to load or begin streaming right away and slowly begin to crawl to load at 25%. Next thing you know, the track ball catches up to the non loaded part and bam, stop and playing begins.
 
GuruX said:
Only if you maximize the window to full screen... and don't mind "heavily compressed" 720p video.
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Exactly... I watch it in windows.. I have a 2560 x 1600 screen, stretching out low bit-rate 720p video on that is no bueno.

I'd rather watch it in a window, if I can get a 1280 x 720 window at a decent bit-rate I would just put it in a corner of my screen and watch from there while doing other stuff with the rest of my screen. :p
 
mashie said:
Perfect timing as I will get upgraded to 50MBit cable tomorrow. :D
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I have a 300 Mbit connection and I still get stuttering/buffering problems sometimes. The worst is when I try to skip around in a video. That always screws shit up.
 
gtg465x said:
I have a 300 Mbit connection and I still get stuttering/buffering problems sometimes. The worst is when I try to skip around in a video. That always screws shit up.
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Even when I allow YouTube to fully load before hitting play, it still freezes and show the circle loading thingy in the middle of the screen every 5 seconds.

YouTube has a long ways to go.
 
Azhar said:
Even when I allow YouTube to fully load before hitting play, it still freezes and show the circle loading thingy in the middle of the screen every 5 seconds.

YouTube has a long ways to go.
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Edit: I should rather say, Adobe isn't helping much. Hopefully 10.1 is as good as they say.
 
So has microsoft silverlight gone anywhere? After the great performance during the beijing olympics I half expected youtube or some competitor to start using it. Youtube has really gotten spotty in the last year or two for me, lots of issues with video's not buffering properly.
 
and with so many ISP's throttling high bandwidth items, good luck viewing those 1080 clips!
 
Atech said:
Not all contries throttle..or CAP lines...you will find no such lines in DK eg.
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Yes i know, Costa Rica doesn't, i should of said in the U.S :)

i love my 4mb/756kb line cause i have no throttles, no limits nadda!
 
MrGuvernment said:
Yes i know, Costa Rica doesn't, i should of said in the U.S :)

i love my 4mb/756kb line cause i have no throttles, no limits nadda!
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I am a bit "spooiled" as I work for an ISP.
I have (for guests in the house) a 20/2Mbit ADSL2+ line on a wireless router.

Rig in sig is plugged into a DSLAM running Gbond SHDSL 15/15Mbit, with hyper low ping:
Code: 
Pinger [URL="http://www.fullrate.dk/"]www.fullrate.dk[/URL] [90.185.3.106] med 32
Svar fra 90.185.3.106: byte=32 tid=2ms TTL=60
Svar fra 90.185.3.106: byte=32 tid=2ms TTL=60
Svar fra 90.185.3.106: byte=32 tid=2ms TTL=60
Svar fra 90.185.3.106: byte=32 tid=2ms TTL=60

Perfect for gaming ;)


If I need more bandwith I can get extra copperpairs (running on 3 now) to give me 45/45Mbit(8 pairs)...but since I don't do warez and just game a 15/15 is more than fine....for free ;)
 
high res is moot without high bitrate.

I have comcast for HDTV and it actually looks way better on a 720p 19" TV than on my 50" 1080p plasma because its compressed (low bitrate) and all of the macro blocks look terrible.

Actually most satellite/cable companies do this. My sister has AT&T "Uverse" fiber and it looks down right disgusting. Its really too bad they are all so stingy with bandwidth.
 
This sounds good (at least the 1080p part), but this will need again more bandwidth and space for storing higher quality stuff. And that's is true about the bitrate being also important here. I think most of the users would be satisfied enough with the high quality option for some time.
 
Watched the Ninja Assassin trailer on Youtube in 1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyI8wXepA3I

I'm not impressed from an image quality standpoint, the moment there is any real movement it is compression artifact city. There is a 1080p pixel count but the compression artifacts are like what you'd see on a DVD. Compare it with a 1080p trailer at a higher bitrate like you would download from sites like Apple's movie trailers website. I dunno, they need to start listing bitrates along with the resolution. Lines are a horrible and misleading form of marketing. I would actually prefer a 720p video clip at a higher bitrate with the same file size.

Don't get me wrong, it is nice for streaming, very cool in that regard, I just hope that people don't expect this to replace high quality 1080p sources such as Blu Ray or high quality downloads anytime soon.
 
Serpico said:
Watched the Ninja Assassin trailer on Youtube in 1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyI8wXepA3I

I'm not impressed from an image quality standpoint, the moment there is any real movement it is compression artifact city. There is a 1080p pixel count but the compression artifacts are like what you'd see on a DVD. Compare it with a 1080p trailer at a higher bitrate like you would download from sites like Apple's movie trailers website. I dunno, they need to start listing bitrates along with the resolution. Lines are a horrible and misleading form of marketing. I would actually prefer a 720p video clip at a higher bitrate with the same file size.
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nope, it's still 720p. download the video and you'll see that res is like 1280x528 or near.
 
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