[HN Gopher] Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube
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Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube
Author : prostoalex
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-06-04 15:10 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| xmprt wrote:
| Anecdotally, whatever YouTube has done in recently years has
| completely ruined a lot of 480p and 360p videos. I uploaded a
| native 360p video about 10 years ago and in the end card, I added
| small red text that was visible. And when I uploaded it at the
| time, it was visible on YouTube as well. Now that section just
| looks like a bunch of red blurry lines.
|
| If you ever wondered why old videos look so bad, it's not just
| because you're used to 1080p and so 360p looks terrible in
| comparison. YouTube is actively reducing old video quality
| through whatever reencoding they're doing.
| mdonahoe wrote:
| They probably lowered the max bitrate for 360p videos.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Which might make sense for variable bitrate content, but it
| makes no sense for videos that were only ever 360p in the
| first place! They basically made a lot of old content
| unwatchable.
| handrous wrote:
| TL;DR they started using dedicated and purposed-designed video
| encoding/transcoding chips.
| sheikheddy wrote:
| Any implications for end-users, or notable improvements from an
| engineering standpoint?
| ExtraE wrote:
| When did google buy the .youtube TLD? Anyone know how to view a
| list of corporate TLDs? (Yes I know they're mostly owned by ICAN
| anymore and all therefore corporate in some sense).
| xnx wrote:
| Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034627
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| bad re-invite, this is what this one is about/being discussed
| already:
|
| _Google Replaces Millions of Intel 's CPUs with Its Own
| Homegrown Chips_
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390398
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| > Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube
|
| What level of corporate buzzword bingo is this on?
| wmf wrote:
| Webscale level.
| singhkays wrote:
| So they ended up adopting MongoDB? :)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
| pimlottc wrote:
| I get that this a engineering article but wow, what a tone deaf
| title. Nobody outside of Google wants to "empower" YouTube,
| they have plenty of power already. If anyone needs empowering,
| it's the users (aka actual people).
| jchw wrote:
| The good faith interpretation would probably be "YouTube
| [Creators]" which seems to be what was meant.
| ForHackernews wrote:
| They've already made their own demonym, so why not write
| "to empower YouTubers" if that's what they meant?
| ffhhj wrote:
| Quantum supremacy level.
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