Youtube goes 60fps

I believe the Battlefield Hardline trailer earlier this year was officially the first 60fps video on YouTube.
 
No, this just launched yesterday.

Youtube has previously previewed videos and enabled 60fps on a few select videos (like BF Hardline: link here) but this feature has been opened to eveyone on the site now. Also the ability to upload (but not oplayback) 60fps content has been there for a little while.

Anyway great news and love the response from one NeoGaf poster; 'Ubisoft disapproves'

:p
 
Nice feature, seems strange to see some videos running so smoothly like that Mario Kart 8 video as we are so used to seeing Youtube running at 30fps.
 
:L Why is this in the console part of the forums???

That aside it does look better and anyone who argues that " the human eye cant see over 30 fps " will now all be giving it some thought as they had probably never seen 60fps before :L
 
The part of YouTube that will benefit the most is games content. I can't think of other areas where it will be of as much benefit on YouTube.
 
Might be slightly blind but I can't really tell a difference between that and other mario kart videos I've seen before today
 
Steedie said:
Might be slightly blind but I can't really tell a difference between that and other mario kart videos I've seen before today
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The difference between 30fps and 60fps should be very noticeable particularly if you've watched a few minutes of 30fps content first. I had to re-install Chrome for this to work on my Windows 7 PC (the iMac was fine).

Just to be sure you're not still playing at 30fps:

  • Make sure your browser supports the HTML5 player enabled and is not defaulting to the Adobe Flash player (https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB)
  • I understood it's only Chrome that is officially supported but people have been reporting IE11 can playback 60fps content.
  • Video must be at an HD quality setting; so either 720 or 1080p

Also another way to make sure you absolutely playing back at 60fps is to right-click the video and click on 'Stats for nerds' which will show the '@60' after the resolution. If this shows '@30' then you're not playing back at 60fps and something is blocking the playback (extension or one of the above reasons). You should also notice the far higher bandwidth.

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Willir said:
Yeh, Games, HD film trailers and live streams/events will all benefit from 60fps.
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Really?

I thought films still played back at 24fps and video cameras used 30fps for playback. I know my Camcorder outputs content in AVCHD at 25fps.

I would have thought VLOGs and Movies interviews/trailers aren't going to see a benefit. Where as obviously games will.

EDIT: Just did a quick read on this, and it's about the source material. If people are playing back content which isn't in 60fps to begin with (movies trailers, VLOGs) then there's no benefits other than improved bandwidth and bitrate if Google have improved this too. For 60fps games the benefit will obviously be huge.
 
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Can't wait for new videos from TotalBiscuit in glorious 60fps :)

Edit: Although, this won't apply to many in this section, as TB doesn't do console games - I didn't realise I was in the console section!!
 
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