Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by R0flcopt3r 1337 days ago
It’s also a blurry mess with tons of tearing at low frame rate. Might be down to the encoding that twitter does.
3 comments

Twitter's infamous for encoding video into little more than mildly suggestive compression artifacts.

Here's a 4k60 YouTube video: https://youtu.be/VGnuGnOWeTE?t=605

Yeah I'm not sure how anyone's meant to find something impressive to look at when there's a layer of vaseline over all of it. Maybe there's a higher quality version being served to some Twitter users.
Or looking at it on your phone screen hides the muck.
Looking at the original youtube video, tearing seems to be from Twitter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LlSR6-ibA

Lol, so as usual, game devs perform technical miracles, rendering an incredibly rich virtual world at smooth 60 FPS, while a bloated and barely-competent Silicon Valley company cannot even display a freaking video clip of it without tearing.
Twitter is barely even incompetent.
As a usual twitter user, I've been dreading watching any videos there and I'm used to find them on youtube because of this. I thought it was because I was using linux, but now that I've moved to a macbook m1 with the power of a supercomputer 10 years ago, the quality of the videos is too ridiculous to take twitter videos seriously.