YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling out 60 FPS videos

Re:YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling ... by fraencko on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:15AM (#24835702)

I think decoding performance is something to consider, too.

This might be anecdotal but when we switched to encoding videos in 60 FPS on a channel I was involved in ~4 years ago, some users complained that their Android TV sets (afair a Sony model was mentioned) weren't able to play our new videos stutter free anymore.

30 FPS should stay the default option. At least YouTube should make the FPS setting manually configurable independently from resolution.

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Re:YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling ... by londons_explore on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:56PM (#24842282)

1st Gen Chromecasts also can't do some resolutions/framerates of videos stutter free, and the user has no way to select the quality, so video producers get complaints if they upload too high res...

Seems to happen most frequently with slideshow video content, not sure why.

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