Re:YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
by nerdo on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:15PM
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Does it cost anything to display a static image? (which is what most youtube songs are)
Re:YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
by baddox on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:37PM
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Based on my naive understanding of compressed video, it would still send full keyframes every x frames, but the diffs between keyframes should be minimal.
Re:YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
by SquareWheel on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:30PM
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I'd be less worried about that and more worried about the fact that you're using a video compression algorithm on music. That's not optimal!
We have plenty of music streaming services, Youtube seems like an odd choice.
Re:YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
by vindvaki on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:53PM
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I'm pretty sure that the soundtrack is compressed using some conventional audio compression scheme. Usually, the audio and video are kind of separate streams, which are synchronized by the player using information provided by the container. For example, Matroska video files (*.mkv) are codec independent ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska ).
Re:YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch
by brigade on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:51PM
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The audio is still compressed using AAC or Vorbis at somewhere around 96-128 kbps depending on format...
Youtube has really good recommendations, doesn't need flash, and has a huge selection and existing community. Worse is better™
In a normal world it wouldn't make much sense to allow video to keep playing while the screen is unavailable. I guess in our world, however, Youtube is one of the few reliable sorta-legal sources of free music.