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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by cush »

alexb_ wrote: post #310
cush wrote: post #309

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I'm not saying embed the file I the description. Add a URL that points to the asset like we've been doing forever... This solves nothing.

>add a URL that points This works really well until it doesn't. I have seen so, so, so many videos have linked content in the description that links to sites which don't work anymore.

> links to sites

Wait so your expectation is that instead of Youtubers using URLs to link to websites, you would prefer and expect that they download and embed those websites into their videos for you? Like, a zip file of the whole site? For.... convenience?

Have you considered using archive.org or mirrors instead?

There are an infinite number of better solutions for this...

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by woobilicious »

pingtickle wrote: post #218

Before broadband was widely available, TiVo used to purchase overnight paid programming slots across the US and broadcast modified PDF417 video streams that provided weekly program guide data for TiVo users. There's a sample of it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI but they usually wrapped a 60-second commercial before and after the 28-minute broadcast of data. There was enough error correction in…

If I was to gamble I would say that Analog TV can store more data, compression algorithms usually work at say 1:200 compression ratio, they're extremely destructive, a raw 1080p60 in yuv420p is about 187MB/s, on the other hand a decent equivalent video on YouTube is about 1MB/s

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by woobilicious »

dzhang314 wrote: post #250
ArrayBoundCheck wrote: post #248

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Do you have any idea how many more bits you'd be able to use if you applied any of the encoding transformations?

I'd estimate that there's an easy order-of-magnitude improvement (~10x) just from implementing a simple error-correction mechanism -- a Reed-Solomon code ought to be good enough that we can take the squares down to 10x10, maybe even 8x8 or 5x5. Then, if we really work at it, we might be able to find another order-of-magnitude win (~100x) by packing more bits into a frequency-domain encoding scheme. This would likely…

YouTube's 1080p60 is already at a decimation ratio of about 200:1, then you have to consider how efficient P and B frames are with motion/differences. if your data looks like noise you're gonna be completely screwed since the P and B frames will absolutely destroy the quality.

There's a bunch of other things too, like YUV420p and TV colour range: 16-235, so you only get 7.7bits / pixel.

If anything you would want to encode your data in some way that abuses the P and B frames, and the macro block size of 16x16.

Coding theory for the data output at your end is only one side of the coin, the VP9 codec stupidly good compression is a completely different game to wrangle.

And I kinda doubt you'll get much better than your estimate of 1% from the original scheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by danachow »

freedomben wrote: post #302
danachow wrote: post #257

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WinMX was release 21 years ago, and Britney Spears definitely didn’t break out until around 1999 around the same time as Napster. The difference between 1994 and 1999 is quite a bit in show biz/pop culture and an absolutely huge difference in public uptake of the internet.

For the record, neither I nor the person I replied to said 1994 (unless they edited their post). I was thinking 97 or 98, so was still off, but at this point in my life being off by a year or two feels pretty damn close ;-)

The person you replied to said in the prior post: “ to play the britney tape they downloaded 28 years ago.”

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by onemiketwelve »

bradwood wrote: post #276
S-E-P wrote: post #271

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You devil! I'm pretty sure I remember running into a file that looked like that and a quick poke around showed it wasn't anything valid. Funny how these things work since I'm pretty sure I remember running into it around 2008 (i'm a few years younger). I think i just deleted it though since I was suspicious of most strange files back then; I was the nerd who didn't have friends so i used to troll forums for anything…

"running into it"... Yeah. Right. ;)

Oops my finger slipped on the download button and I accidentally waited 2 days to let it finish. Clumsy me

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by hnbad »

vanattab wrote: post #293
hnbad wrote: post #289

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That's right, 1999 was the release of her first album (Baby One More Time). I think the reason some feel like it must have been the mid-90s is that she went from that to the first major scandals (marriage, divorce and a shift in her musical style) as well as her first Greatest Hits album by 2004. Her next album after that (along with the head shaving incident and being placed under the custody of her manager-dad) was…

I think she also did some kind of Disney kids singing and talent show before that right?

The Mickey Mouse Club, yes. Alongside Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and others.
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