Did you know that YouTube is doing worse with its fast settings recently?
Did you know that YouTube is doing worse with its fast settings recently?
That's why Google picked 720p as the standard for videos everywhere. They want to keep internet traffic from getting too big and slow.
They had better keep up with what they started back then, even though YouTube started using 4K ten years ago. The standard has mostly moved to 1080p already. Just because people can still do fast processing at 1080p without waiting too long when this happens makes it a good sign for now.
I just got another email reply from YouTube support. They say they fixed something, hoping it's a permanent fix. Before this happened, all four of my videos uploaded over the last few days didn't offer 1440p or use the VP9 codec; now they are at 1440p and using VP9. Andrew, one of the support guys, didn't explain what was wrong or even admit it was YouTube's problem. He seemed to blame me instead, making it look like my system doesn't support VP9 or that I don't know how to encode properly. That didn't make sense to me at all. If my system could actually use VP9 when watching videos, why wouldn't it be showing up? It made no sense if I couldn't see those missing features on any of my clips. I just hope they really fixed the issue and that this is now fixed for you guys too.
Yeah, I think I get it now. It looks like they fixed this problem for me (and probably most people too). All my videos used to show up stuck at 1080p are now playing in full HD (4K). I agree with the idea that blaming users is annoying and not good, but unfortunately a lot of big tech companies do it. I doubt they are actually responsible for this though; he probably just had to say something even if they didn't mean to.
My YouTube videos show up at 1440p60, but they look like they are playing at 1080p60 because the quality isn't actually higher than that.