Why does Youtube video quality suck?

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Kayanator on 28 August 2007

Seriously, IGN video quality is superb and it supports almost full screen viewing. Youtube video quality sucks even when viewed in tiny size and full screen...ugh why?? Why doesn't youtube up the quality??

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Dolla Dolla on 28 August 2007

High lossy compression to keep server loads low. Can you imagine the number of petabytes of video they have?

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darconi on 28 August 2007

Bandwidth & $$$

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bugmenot on 28 August 2007

Not just bandwidth. Also because they needed to use the basic H.263 video codec (not H.264 - that one's good) that was available in Flash for maximum browser compatibility. Stage6 has great video thanks to their MPEG4 ASP derived codec (though they probably have great servers and little traffic), but you'll notice you need to install a plugin to display it. Youtube has no such requirements for anything supporting flash.

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iclim4 on 28 August 2007

i bet google can afford it, the quality didnt improve even after google bought it off two random joes.

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ceres on 28 August 2007

It's so things don't take 20 minutes to stream.

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Fuzzmosis on 28 August 2007

They bought it for retarded sums of money off 2 random joes who now, for the simple idea of having user submitted copyright infringing content in low quality, will never have to work again.

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