YouTube to Get 60 FPS Option

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  • YouTube to Get 60 FPS Option

    YouTube will soon have the ability to display a higher framerate than most Xbox One games (ho ho, I WENT THERE!). They revealed earlier this evening that they will "soon" have 48 FPS and 60 FPS options for uploaders.

    They even went so far as to include a few sample videos that are apparently already running at 60 FPS. Unfortunately for everyone, it seems as though YouTube still insists at compressing the visual quality down just as much as before. So while the jump in framerate is certainly welcome, it doesn't really help when the overall quality still suffers greatly because of their re-encoding process.

    You can see the sample videos below, including the trailer for Battlefield Hardline.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Apparently there is some issue if you are using Firefox. In that you probably won't actually get 60FPS and you will drop a ton of frames. You should either watch these videos in Chrome or (and I cannot confirm this fix) try the HTML 5 renderer for YouTube if you insist on using Firefox to watch these.

    I watched them all in Firefox, they looked terrible and were barely above 30 FPS. I then watched them in Chrome and the difference was most certainly night and day.


    • jimykx
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      I didn't have any issues with firefox :)!

    • cikame
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      cikame commented
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      Yeah the HTML5 stuff has been around for abit, good to see it coming to flash.

    • Shawn Zipay
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      Shawn Zipay commented
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      Originally posted by jimykx
      I didn't have any issues with firefox :)!
      I am willing to bet that you did since every other person that tried Firefox has noticed it was not showing properly at all. Right click on the video and select "Stats for nerds" and you can see a sub-60 fps framerate and many dropped flames, especially if you're using Flash in Firefox as the video player.

    • cikame
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      cikame commented
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      Yeah i use Firefox and my frame rate apparently goes between 27 and 31, google and youtube are pretty big so i assume they'll fix it.

    • K-16
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      K-16 commented
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      I can't help but think that we'll be telling our grandkids that this is our version of soap operas in the distant future. Smooth frame rate, and bullcrap drama from swearing voice chats. And we'll be watching from morning to mid-afternoon followed by a 6-hour nap.

      Sorry, I know that made no sense, but for some unknown reason I keep associating high frame rate videos with the "soap opera effect" and feel like this is our version of soap operas (again, for no logical reason).
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