codecs
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Understand YouTube’s New ‘1080p Premium’ Before You Subscribe for It
If you don’t watch YouTube enough, YouTube Premium isn’t worth the monthly cost.
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The New H.265 Video Format Helps Chew Up Video So Networks Can Swallow It
Streaming video is the future. Well, it’s the present, but the future too. And as resolutions increase, it’s going to be a tougher and tougher proposition to pipe all that data to your screen of choice in a timely fashion. Fortunately, the new H.265 standard has been approved by the ITU and it’s here to…
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YouTube Changes Its Video Codec To WebM
From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99 per cent of views on the site or nearly 30 per cent of all videos”. Google explains it to the non-tech savvy folk like so: