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by iinnPP 493 days ago
Bitrate can be massive with a low quality video so that also doesn't tell you much.
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Bitrate, resolution, and codec are all of course critical, and not knowing all three makes it impossible to judge how good or bad it will look. Sadly the resolution is the only one of the three that's easy to describe to consumers, so here we are.