YouTube Plans Automatic Upscaling for Low-Res Videos (blog.youtube)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/29/1516225/youtube-plans-automatic-upscaling-for-low-res-videos
- Source link: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-features-to-help-creators/
YouTube said it plans to support upscaling to 4K in the near future. The company also said it is expanding the video thumbnail size limit from 2MB to 50MB to support 4K images. On videos with tagged products, viewers will soon be able to scan a QR code on TV screens to purchase items directly.
[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-features-to-help-creators/
I wish they'd fix automatic captioning (Score:2)
I've been watching the Polygon 98 channel lately, and in order to understand it, I depend on automatic closed captioning and translation. Google botches this spectacularly at every turn. Some of it is understandable, like when there's a lot of loud engine noise. But it's also just generally inexplicable. Engine noise is captioned [music] or [applause]. Actual music is not noted. If they could improve their captioning that would produce a lot more benefit than upscaling some videos and creating shit that doe
Re:I wish they'd fix automatic captioning (Score:4, Interesting)
> I've been watching the Polygon 98 channel lately, and in order to understand it, I depend on automatic closed captioning and translation. Google botches this spectacularly at every turn. Some of it is understandable, like when there's a lot of loud engine noise. But it's also just generally inexplicable. Engine noise is captioned [music] or [applause]. Actual music is not noted. If they could improve their captioning that would produce a lot more benefit than upscaling some videos and creating shit that doesn't exist in them, which will inevitably happen.
Turn on captioning on some death metal for a good giggle. It doesn't just try to caption the lyrics. It tries to caption the guitars, and some of the words it comes up with are absolutely hysterical.
oh perfect... (Score:2)
no time to implement proper configuration for when to enable automated dubbing, which languages, etc... but plenty of time to train people to accept AI-looking videos like it's the new normal
Re: (Score:2)
But I enjoy turning off captions on foreign cooking videos only after the first commercials in English, captioned in English. It needs two settings, one to enable or disable auto-captioning in the applications native language and the second to disable auto-captioning in all other languages.
The irony (Score:3)
It's ironic given that videos I uploaded at 640x480 and were originally accessible at that resolution now only exist in 240p versions. :/
Some creators cannot opt out / Growth D.V. MBA (Score:1)
What happens to dormant accounts on up-scaling on the opt-out? Reason be is some creators are no longer active as site like youtube has been around for decades now some of the creators are dead due to age among other reason(s) may apply.
On the last part of "On videos with tagged products, viewers will soon be able to scan a QR code on TV screens to purchase items directly." Sound like a Darth Vader MBA is in charge as they let go and laid off the good fella tech workers.
Ancient Youtube (Score:2)
Those 18-year-old videos on YouTube are rare treasures. It's like finding a 300-year-old tree in the woods that somehow managed to survive the industrial revolution. They stand out, with a rare beauty and innocence that is difficult to find today. I hope this doesn't end up with these treasures being destroyed and replaced with a hallucinated mess.
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> Those 18-year-old videos on YouTube are rare treasures. It's like finding a 300-year-old tree in the woods that somehow managed to survive the industrial revolution. They stand out, with a rare beauty and innocence that is difficult to find today. I hope this doesn't end up with these treasures being destroyed and replaced with a hallucinated mess.
Yes, because most of them were flagged as private a few years ago, and like you said, the accounts have been dormant for a decade.
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"Those 18-year-old videos on YouTube are rare treasures."
Indeed and for some strange reason, YouTube recommends a dozen of them to me every fucking day.
It must believe I'm a treasure hunter.
And automatic downscale unless you pay (Score:2)
Seems that youtube now defaults to 720p, unless you switch it to 1080p, and won't let you get 4K and also high quality bit rate on 1080 unless you pay.
great news (Score:2)
tons of old anime and other low res media is on youtube. up until now "something" was doing the scaling to 720p, 900p or 1440p(my current monitor). And this will be easier to use than the ringlamore I had to do until now with LossLessScaling (which I love).
So, great, thanks
Good (Score:2)
On my 4k tv those old videos look bad.
Just make sure I can turn it OFF when it doesn't work right on a particular video.
Most people can't discern above 2K (Score:3)
So why waste the time, energy, and bandwidth?
I uploaded a 100x100 video (Score:5, Funny)
(duration 90 minutes) of a random white dot on a green area and the AI upscaled it to a soccer World Championships finals match. Best game I ever saw!
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Wesley: I see you have six fingers on your left hand. Someone was looking for you.
Count: It's an upscaler hallucination! I swear!