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Youtube versus 1440p

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  • 31-05-2014 12:58pm
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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    I've uploaded a heavily compressed file, 180 megs, which is 2560x1440 res, and Youtube gives 1440p res available on playback.

    I then upload a much less compressed and better quality edition of the video, 1.7 gig, 2560x1440, 60fps, and the result is Youtube only provides 1080p playback.

    Am I missing something basic or obvious here?


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    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    It takes time for the higher resolution playback formats to become available, especially on uncompressed files. Might just be that?


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Everything up to 1080 appeared fairly promptly. But the 1440p still hasn't appeared more than 12 hours later.


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    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    YouTube's automated conversion system can be a bit funny with high resolution uploads(and by high i mean larger than 1080p). I've uploaded some 4k footage in the past and it appeared as "original" as an option higher than 1080p and was it seemed 4k.
    But, I uploaded a 2k file also and all I ever got on it was 1080p!
    And I do wish they'd allow 60fps videos rather than always dropping them down to 30fps :0/

    If you're uploading a video that's over 30fps i think you're nearly better off dropping the frame-rate down yourself before uploading as I wouldn't trust YouTube to be as elegant in the process as you might be yourself.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Hmm, seems I may be in the wrong here.

    Although Shadowplay is set to use the in-game resolution, and the replay being recorded displays in 2560x1440, the video actually produced is 1920x1080 according to the file details.

    From the manual options, Shadowplay apparently tops out at 1080p.


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    #6
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    And to answer my own question completely, nVidia released Geforce Experience 2.1, and one of the additions is that ShadowPlay now captures the higher resolutions.


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    mark17j
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭mark17j


    I tried to watch a 1440p vid on youtube and my video card crashed -
    1080p vids work fine... how do I go about fixing this? Do I need to update my drivers?
    I have an i3 processor 4gb-ram pc and the latest flash installed.


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    TheChrisD
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭TheChrisD


    Check if the video player is the HTML5 player, if so it's probably going to impact your system more than Flash videos. I've found I can't even watch 1080p anymore since the HTML5 player in Chrome chugs my system down to a crawl on my i5-750.
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