YouTube begins streaming 1080p insecurities next week (update: 1080p video!)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 13th 2009 5:14AM
posted Nov 13th 2009 5:14AM
Update: 1080p sample video posted after the break.
posted Nov 13th 2009 5:14AM
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Any chance this might coincide with the Flash Player 10 update that is supposed to bring GPU hardware decoding for video streams in Flash? Might be a fairly decent way to push Flash Player updates to people.
Well this sample is obviously not 1080p. 720p HD Lite maybe....
Kinda hard to tell the supposed quality when the video is mostly out of focus anyway.
I just bought a camera to record 720p60, so I would have preferred 60fps support before 1080p30.
Yea, that video is not 1080. I downloaded the HD version. Its still 720.
looks the same as 720p stream
How are you even supposed to tell it's 1080p anyways? Does all this mean that uploading YouTube vids to HD is 1080p now instead of 720p regardless of the source resolution? And that video they had from yesterday mentioned that they were going back to re-encode all the HD vids to 1080p?
videos will only be re-encoded to 1080p if their source resolution is 1080p (or at least higher than 720p)
I was hoping they would atleast look at silverlight 3 for their new stuff..... hopefully flash gets something similar to what smoothstreaming does (I believe they have something similar in flash but its not out in the wild yet). After playing around some with the smoothstreaming tech on the 360 I want all internet video delivered like that.
If YouTube moves from Flash it'll be to an open standard. They're doing a lot of research into that area and working with the HTML 5 people, but thus far nothing's jumping out at them.
With Silverlight not being anything like as cross platform as Flash (Flash at least supports the three major operating system platforms, plus numerous mobile platforms) Silverlight is likely very low on Google's list of things to support. And bear in mind that while recent demos might be impressive, Flash too has undergone significant revisions and will continue to do so - there's no reason to suppose that Silverlight will always be "better", if indeed it is right now, than Flash.
What we really want are open standards for web video. Then we don't have to worry about plugins, and the browser manufacturers can work on optimizing playback rather than us having to wait on one or two proprietary vendors to invent the next big thing.
First fix current connection issue, youtube is not even able to play every hd video in the current youtube site, they clearly has limited the bandwidth speed.
I think the 480p stream version of http://www.recastdigital.net/DEMO/ is way better then this YouTube 1080p sample. Recast's playback is very smooth in my laptop while the youtube version is not.
It's still Flash though, which means that my CPU will spike and my fans will go crazy
so should I wait to upload my 1080p video until they make an official announcement, or if i upload it today will it be encoded in 1080p in advance of this launch?
Hello:
That is a great step ahead for YouTube. Hulu and Facebook are coming fast from behind but I think the disadvantages for each are: Hulu is not available in all regions and a lot of Facebook video files are taken from YouTube. Still Facebook can benefit from it's viral spreading. YouTube said they will go back and re-encode all previous videos uploaded at 1080p resolution. It is interesting how will they deal with the buffering issues thinking that not so much investment has been done in upgrading the infrastructure. Here is an article talking about this technology with technical details for a better understanding: http://www.thehdstandard.com/hd-broadcaster/
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