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In the last few days I've been seeing a lot of high quality videos on YouTube, encoded by YouTube itself. They've been making the switch one channel at a time, encoding new videos at 480x360 (~760kbps) with 44.1khz mono audio (96kbps), and reencoding past videos at 448x336.
The switchover doesn't seem to have reached any of my own channels yet. -
Some examples:
new 480x360:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pC2LxU90c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEPvpvEiFE
old 448x336:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrwAigJo_Vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiI0xGkfJTQ
And the old announcement where they said they'd do this right about now:
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9817732-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware -
Originally Posted by dtfinch
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err.
I get the lower quality videos when I log in with a different account.
This must look pretty bad.
Just click around the recent videos. I run across one every couple pages. -
This is what they served me:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qdgfy1 -
..confirmed that in YouTube's internal archive, all video is stored at the native resolution in which it was sent.
that kind of waste of space makes it feasible,
but still impractical for a large portion of content.
i don't know about this 'intelligent' streaming,
my speed is low in any case
but i did notice this new control bar to the playback window
(new to me at least, i hardly watch youtube, so it could be 'older')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqY8LPSfhI
i gave myspace a try and it's interesting
encodes to vp6, keeps resolutions under 448x (i'd say)
a nice playback window in which wide videos are treated with proper resizing.
tripp -
im still doing some tests, i encoded 4 clips:
1 - flv 12fps - bitrate 345 - resolution 320x240
2 - flv 18fps - bitrate 345 - resolution 320x240
3 - flv 25fps - bitrate 345 - resolution 320x240
4 - x264 25fps - bitrate 345 - resolution 320x240
youtube doenst support h264, but adobe flash player plays it, http://blip.tv does accept it
they all have the same final size(2.46m) except the x264 (2.89m) because the audio is 53k instead of the 48k
Which one looks better to you? you can find the clips here: http://ricardosantos.com.pt/youtube/I love it when a plan comes together! -
Originally Posted by dtfinch
Why don't they just upgrade their flash player to Flash8, and encode videos with the hugely more efficient VP6 codec. They probably wouldn't have to even increase the current bit rate to get that sort of resolution, and much better quality.
Not meaning to be rude, but I think it's more likely you're a crazy guy than youtube sticking with the flash6 player/sorenson codec and just doubling the bitrate. -
Originally Posted by kodaismahhussy
I bet some non technical idiot at youtube got all upset about this, and demanded the hack be fixed, without even realising it did nothing to impede the network in any way. -
I noticed on the high quality videos it passes an extra argument to the player, "fmt_map". On the page I looked at it was "6/720000/7/0/0". The 2nd value is the bitrate requirement for that video. If your measured bandwidth is less, it'll show the old 320x240 version.
I wrote this greasemonkey script (my first one) to lower the bitrate requirement if it's been set:
Code:// ==UserScript== // @name forcehq // @namespace http://youtube.com/forcehq // @description lowers the hi/low bitrate threshold to 10kbps. If no HQ version exists, you'll probably get a blank video. // @include http://@youtube.com/watch* // ==/UserScript== var alreadyran=false; function forcehq() { if(alreadyran) return; //Odd issue with Firefox 3 and greasemonkey alreadyran=true; if(unsafeWindow.swfArgs.fmt_map || unsafeWindow.document.location.href.indexOf("force")>=0) { unsafeWindow.swfArgs.fmt_map="6/10000/7/0/0"; unsafeWindow.writeMoviePlayer("playerDiv"); } } document.body.addEventListener('load', forcehq, true);
I also checked how the video url differs between the low and high quality versions:
Code:Old video url: http://ash-v303.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=30pC2LxU90c&signature=5B3A7EDF6D680...A4542D1C95&ip=[censored]&ipbits=16&expire=1202476646&key=1 New url: http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=2&secureurl=UAAAAGlzskLnFf9kxHqNw27eY...u1yvFxPKeTJZqM
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New Automen version available: "optimize video for youtube" option added
Thanks a million Buzzqw
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1097663#post1097663I love it when a plan comes together! -
The last 3 numbers in fmt_map is the required Flash version. I'm pretty sure H.264 is on the way, since they gave themselves enough room to specify 9.0.115 instead of just 8 or 9.
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My earlier guess that availability changed from user to user was way off.
When browsing youtube with my main account, I'm using a Firefox 3 nightly. I use different browsers for my other accounts, and in those cases the fmt_map argument isn't set even if there's an HQ version. Either the difference is cookie related or they've turned it on just for certain browsers until they're done testing. -
If I delete my cookies, I still get high quality videos in Firefox 3.
Edit: I also cleared my Flash local storage to see if that had any effect. This also cleared its bandwidth statistics, so I had to watch a video and let it finish downloading before it'd serve anything high quality again. -
those who are watching this topic might be interested in this:
Youtube: high quality uploads with no 10min limit
enjoy -
Originally Posted by frifox
Read the first message in this 11 page thread. That's what the bulk of this thread is about. And it doesn't work any more -
Originally Posted by atropine
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SWhn82rrpgw -
Originally Posted by atropine
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Originally Posted by frifox
How difficult is to compress that?
Show me real videos, people moving, etc. -
i used picture with music cuz it was the easiest video to make... but yesterday youtube busted thas hole as well. so no more hex tricks at all
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Point is, I don't know if you've all noticed, but they can barely manage the bandwidth load as it is during peak-times (like right now). I also notice their clustering is getting bumpy and slow on updating dynamic pages, another sign of very high load on their servers.
I really don't think they'll allow upping the 350 kbit/s limit anytime soon. They might change codec and FLV-player, but even if re-encoding of all content is required, do you realize what that means? They can never release their "/watch?v=" statics or embedded player until AFTER they've re-encoded their entire data-back-end. A new player on YT will not be backwards compatible (i.e. it can't play the old content as well). They can't change "a channel at a time", simply because of their global dependencies. The local versions all get their base-content from the main servers, as far as I can tell.
Since YouTube's live playback storage must be around the Exa-bytes in total by now, it would take quite an amount of time and processing to change things at the video-base end. -
so, we can not upload high quality videos anymore at youtube. That suck!
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Originally Posted by bayme
How does that sound as a possibility or will that not work for some reason? -
Two more flvs I downloaded from YouTube, to add to the last 4 I posted. I tried to go for popular and featured videos this time.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jbue6q
Maybe I'm just really good at restoring low quality videos, or maybe all the authors uploaded their videos elsewhere at a higher resolution, like that old guy who looks like he could barely turn on a computer. Or maybe someone else who's using a Firefox 3 nightly can test to see if YouTube made that the deciding factor for testing.
If you decompile player2.swf with flasm, you'll find the part that parses and checks the fmt_map parameter against your player version and measured bandwidth to determine which video to request between lines 11884 and 12211. If the line numbers are different when you try it (if they've since updated it), it'll be one of the two functions containing "fmt_map". -
My user agent string is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008020504 Minefield/3.0b4pre", in case that's all they're checking.
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Originally Posted by dtfinch
But I don't like to doubt videohelp forum members would you please give me a direct link to one of the videos you say you view in high resoltuion. You gave this link as an example of a video you're viewing in bigh resolution/ high bitrate:-
Tender Vibes - http://youtube.com/watch?v=wx-CZIoNPJY
Well the direct server link for me is:
http://74.125.15.102/get_video?video_id=wx-CZIoNPJY&origin=chi-v252.chi.youtube.com&si...=get_video.flv
And that is a 320x240 normal youtube video, What is the direct link to the mysterious high resolution version of that video that you get?
If you post that link, maybe we could all use that and see the high resolution version ourselves.(if you're not crazy) -
When I viewed the video, it requested:
http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=wx-CZIoNPJY&t=OEgsToPDskJZ71ChIKaF2VqF55hADG3s&fmt=6
which redirected to:
http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=2&secureurl=UAAAAGJMZ1axPpxy_GZIj_7GN...ZW1GB5kaBaGVwg
which redirected to:
http://ehmutd.vp.video.l.google.com/videodownload?version=2&secureurl=UAAAAGJMZ1axPpxy...kaBaGVwg&rdc=1
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