Maxy

@Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that, theoretically speaking, YouTube might be protecting some end users from this type of attack. However, the main reason YouTube re-encodes video is to reduce (their) bandwidth usage. I think it’s very kind towards YouTube to view this as a free service to the general public, when it’s mostly a cost-cutting measure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, though I believe you have to explicitly enable AV1 in Firefox for it to advertise AV1 support. YouTube on Firefox should fall back to VP9 by default (which is supported by a lot more accelerators), so not being able to decode AV1 shouldn’t be a problem for most Firefox-users (and by extension most lemmy users, I assume).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  About the “much higher CPU usage”: I’d recommend checking that hardware decoding is working correctly on your device, as that should ensure that even 4K content barely hits your CPU.

  About the “less sharper image”: this depends on your downscaler, but a proper downscaler shouldn’t make higher-resolution content any more blurry than the lower-resolution version. I do believe integer scaling (eg. 4K -> 1080p) is a lot less dependant on having a proper downscaler, so consider bumping the resolution up even further if the video, your internet, and your client allow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1080p viewing experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe YouTube always re-encodes the video, so the video will contain (extra) compression artefacts even if you’re watching at the original resolution. However, I also believe YouTube’s exact compression parameters aren’t public, so I don’t believe anyone outside of YouTube itself knows for sure which videos are compressed in which ways.

  What I do know is that different content also compresses in different ways, simply because the video can be easier/harder to compress. IIRC, shows like last week tonight (mostly static camera looking at a host) are way easier to compress than higher paced content, which (depending on previously mentioned unknown parameters) could have a large impact on the amount of artefacts. This makes it more difficult to compare different video’s uploaded at their different resolutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I find game demakes?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  didn’t know that was a part of bisexuality

  I just probably flee before I get eaten by an army of blahåjar (apparently that’s the correct plural?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I find game demakes?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I don’t mind the nitpicking, thanks for the explanation! I (apparently erroneously) thought “demake” and “decompile” were synonyms. Guess I’m one of today’s 10000.

  In that case the (now taken down, but forked a gazillion times) portal64 project would be a correct example of a demake, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I find game demakes?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  interested in females

  Username checks out, though I’m assuming you meant “demakes”?

  Anyways, the demake I’m most familiar with is the in-progress Lego island. The YouTuber behind it documented part of the process in vlogs (linked on the GitHub page), so that might be an interesting starting point.