Title: Youtube now supporting 4K videos Post by: cbuchner1 on July 10, 2010, 11:27:19 AM Youtube now supporting native resolution videos up to 4096p (4096×3072), but what kind
of monitor would show this? I am sure they will bog down any CPU, unless you have hardware decoding support in your GPU ;) Here's youtube's 4K showreel http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BF9E09ECEC8F88F (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BF9E09ECEC8F88F) You need to be on the site, 4K doesn't play in embedded players. Title: Re: Youtube now supporting 4K videos Post by: David Makin on July 10, 2010, 02:20:08 PM I am sure they will bog down any CPU, unless you have hardware decoding support in your GPU ;) I can't even play 720p smoothly :( Title: Re: Youtube now supporting 4K videos Post by: aluminumstudios on July 10, 2010, 06:20:32 PM Considering the lack of material at this resolution, the lack of ability to play video at this size, and how crapily youtube encoded my recent 720p fractal video, I'd say this is just a publicity stunt.
Title: Re: Youtube now supporting 4K videos Post by: Dinkydau on February 14, 2013, 01:03:53 AM I can see the difference between 1080p and 4k on my monitor. The larger the resolution, the higher the bitrate youtube allows. It still doesn't make sense to have 4k this way. A higher bitrate for 1080p would be much better. There's no reason to have higher and higher resolutions if the bitrate sucks. (I mean, for this resolution it does, overall it's pretty awesome that this is offered as a free service.) |