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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by 7jjjjjjj on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:32PM (#42395948)
That's not even close to true, WTF. YouTube 480p has criminally low bitrate, even the crappiest DVDs have better quality.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by CharlesW on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:35PM (#42396252)
I encourage you to try it. Because I wasn't sure, I already had (using the new 28 Years Later trailer) before I posted. You can use yt-dlp to see that the 480P YouTube version is AV1 at 572 Kbps, which is notably better than a DVD Video-compliant MPEG-2 encode from the highest quality source available.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by codedokode on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:51AM (#42396854)
Wikipedia say that "Typically, the data rate for DVD movies ranges from 3 to 9.5 Mbit/s" [1] which is much more than 572 Kbit/s. The Youtube quality issues are easy to spot on highly dynamic clips (with fireworks, flashing lights etc).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

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