Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 days agoWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦lemmy.worldimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1790arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1774arrow-down1imageWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦lemmy.worldViking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 days agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-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-up3·28 days agoSurely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
minus-squareXylight (Photon Dev)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days agoI dont know if youtube has h264 support
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-228 days 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.