Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦lemmy.worldimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1549file-text
arrow-up1549imageWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦lemmy.worldViking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoSurely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
minus-squareXylight (Photon Dev)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI dont know if youtube has h264 support
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agoThey have always hosted AVC videos. They have to for old/incompatible devices, because literally any toaster and software on earth will play it. But sometimes they are funny about what gets encoded to what, and of course they will always try to default to av1/vp9 and opus.
Surely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
I dont know if youtube has h264 support
They have always hosted AVC videos. They have to for old/incompatible devices, because literally any toaster and software on earth will play it.
But sometimes they are funny about what gets encoded to what, and of course they will always try to default to av1/vp9 and opus.