For youtube 720p or 1080p which is better?

[FaisalKhan]

It should be 1080p but someone told me 720p!

One more thing for 1366*768 monitor which is better 1280*720 or 1920*1080?

720 and 1080 do they have huge difference between them?

Thanks
Faisal

[Cauptain]

For YT 720p is perfect. Many sites have 720p default options.



Claudio

[neomaine]

720vs1080:

I'd go with 720. Since everything is reencoded and rescaled(?) might as well get the most bitrate for your video when uploading. It'll give their re-encoding more (potential) quality to work with. For instance, given the same length and bitrate and therefore the same size, it's more likely the given bitrate will give better quality to the 720p video.

768 monitor:

You should go with the 720p input. I'm not sure if it's still done, but, many 1366*768 monitors/TVs will first downscale 1080p to 720p and then upscale it to 768p. However, if you're using this as a desktop/computer display you should set your video card to disply the native 1366*768.

720p/1080p:

You'll need to explain what your question is looking for. You've already shown that you know 720p (1280x720) and 1080p (1920x1080) have different horizontal and vertival resolutions. For instance, do you want to know which one would be better/more effecient when watching TV from a certain distance.

[V1de0Luvr]

If you have a 1080p source, by all means upload it to Youtube for the best quality. Some people will even upscale a 720p source to 1080p before uploading because Youtube allows 1080p to have a bitrate of 6000, while 720p will have a bitrate of only 3000.

[Gavino]

Some people will even upscale a 720p source to 1080p before uploading because Youtube allows 1080p to have a bitrate of 6000, while 720p will have a bitrate of only 3000.

That won't necessarily make it look any better. As 1080p has over twice as many pixels as 720p, in principle you're losing quality if you only double the bitrate, to say nothing of the potential artefacts introduced by upscaling.

[robjv1]

Let's assume you have a 720P source -- in that case, I don't see any benefit to uploading at 1080p because Youtube doesn't seem to display the video any differently (or not much differently) in terms of bitrate. With a 1080p source, I'd just leave it as is.

However, I often do re-encode native 480p files to 720p to trick YouTube into playing them using those bitrates, because the difference in the quality of playback is substantially better. It's enough to make most 480p files I work with look much closer to the source in it's original form, despite the re-encoding, where 480p files uploaded in their native form seem to have a lot less bitrate to work with on playback (much softer than the source, too many artifacts).