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If you're with Windows, which players do you use?

Media Player Classic
[ 3 ] (16.7%)
Windows Media Player
[ 2 ] (11.1%)
Winamp
[ 3 ] (16.7%)
Foobar
[ 5 ] (27.8%)
RealPlayer
[ 1 ] (5.6%)
VLC
[ 3 ] (16.7%)
Other(s)
[ 1 ] (5.6%)

Total Members Voted: 5

Topic: Where do the goats live? (Read 10850 times)

Re: Where do the goats live?

Reply #25 –
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YouTube in 4K. Easily playable in MPlayer

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Re: YouTube in 4K. Easily playable in MPlayer

Reply #29 –
Quote from: j7n on

I just checked out a couple YouTube videos in the new "4K" resolution (3840*2160 px). They come in the somewhat acceptable 16 megabit bitrate at the time when 1080 and 720 are encoded at only 5 and 3 megabits respectively.

For a resolution of 1280*720 an encoding bitrate of at least 4500 megabit gives a reasonable video quality.
Same applies for a resolution of 1920*1080 and an encoding bitrate of at least 8000 megabit.
The encrease of encoding bitrate according to the respective resolution is not linear but exponential.
A resolution of 3840*2160 and an encoding bitrate of 16000 megabit gives a shit. It should be at least around 30000. To realize how shitty it is, you would have to watch it on a monitor with a diagonal of 80 inch. For small monitors 4K makes little to no sense.

Re: Where do the goats live?

Reply #30 –
80 inch? I'll need to do some PPI calculations first, but let me be the first to say I'm extremely skeptical of that number.

Edit: hm, I won't even have to think (although that might not be a good thing for my mental acuity… perhaps I'll manually calculate this later but this page showed up while I was searching for what things like 4k and UHD mean precisely)

http://www.sven.de/dpi/
22" diagonal gives you merely 200 PPI
Display size: 19.17" × 10.79" = 206.81in² (48.7cm × 27.4cm = 1334.28cm²) at 200.26 PPI, 0.1268mm dot pitch, 40106 PPI²

15" diagonal gives you approximately the desired 300 PPI
Display size: 13.07" × 7.35" = 96.14in² (33.21cm × 18.68cm = 620.27cm²) at 293.72 PPI, 0.0865mm dot pitch, 86272 PPI²

Re: Where do the goats live?

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Re: Where do the goats live?

Reply #33 –
Might be my previous job, but visible compression artifacts tend to annoy me more than relatively low resolution.

Re: Where do the goats live?

Reply #35 –
Quote from: Macallan on

Might be my previous job, but visible compression artifacts tend to annoy me more than relatively low resolution.

Wonder if it's because your previous job. I also prefer a low resolution vid in good quality over a poorly encoded high resolution one.

Re: Where do the goats live?

Reply #36 –
Quote from: krake on
Wonder if it's because your previous job. I also prefer a low resolution vid in good quality over a poorly encoded high resolution one.

I think a certain minimum audio quality is significantly more important than anything on the video front. But yeah, a decent DVD looks better than your average 720p YouTube vid.