Vimeo YouTube framerates

[Mylo]

Quick question - will Vimeo and/or YouTube reproduce 60fps footage at 60fps or do their encoders revert to their own framerates without asking me anything

[Baldrick]

You can just try search youtube for 60fps and you will see that all are 30fps/24fps(right click on the video and view video information)

I haven't checked vimeo.

[pandy]

vimeo sometimes provide original file available to download thus you can download source provided by his author - just select this option (is downloadable) during search (author must provide higher fps in source file of course)

[Mylo]

vimeo sometimes provide original file available to download thus you can download source provided by his author - just select this option (is downloadable) during search (author must provide higher fps in source file of course)

I know about the download option, but are you saying they offer only 24/30fps in their player?

[pandy]

vimeo sometimes provide original file available to download thus you can download source provided by his author - just select this option (is downloadable) during search (author must provide higher fps in source file of course)

I know about the download option, but are you saying they offer only 24/30fps in their player?

I downloaded a few footage movies with fps higher than 30fps framerate trough official vimeo link (official mean provided by vimeo and author - thanks to greasemonkey scripts any video can be downloaded from vimeo AFAIK)

[poisondeathray]

The streaming version for youtube/vimeo is capped at 30 (in the player)

(kind of stupid if you ask me - youtube offers 4k when almost nobody currently has a 4k display, but not 60fps even at reduced resolutions ??)

[_Al_]

Allowing 50p/60p might boost sales of those camcorders too or to work with 50p/60p workflow to the end, videoeditors would have to make priorities too, and youtube (google) can keep even same bitrate for those 50/60p videos , I think nobody would even notice.

I'd recommend Youtube to keep 50p/60p for the highest resolution only that uploader provides for now to keep it simple and compatible - meaning smoother playback - across google's huge user base , if there is a volume limit on their servers or concerns about total time to generate all those streams. All can win this way ... default is usually set for 360p or 480p anyway so that huge user base with weaker computers would not even notice ...

[Mylo]

Well this is odd to say the least...are there any reasons they aren't allowing 60 fps in this day n age, at least for highest quality files?

Is this restricted due to bandwidth? I do understand their load, 72 hours of video per minute...but that's the price of free I guess

[poisondeathray]

The decision probably has to do partly with flash performance - technically it's a very poor platform

If you use blip.tv and re-wrap your files into FLV, you can stream original file, no re-encoding (it's still free) . So quality will be much better than youtube/vimeo if you do it correctly . You can even use 60p