YouTube begins streaming 1080p insecurities next week (update: 1080p video!)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 13th 2009 5:14AM
posted Nov 13th 2009 5:14AM
Update: 1080p sample video posted after the break.
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Freaking awesome!!!!
Bring on the zits! Camera Wh0r35
That picture is a bag of LOL!
INCORRECT.
Freaking awesome would be running the entirety of youtube on silverlight 3 streaming IIS.
This is just somewhat awesome.
@Andy: Wrong, because that would shut out all users of Linux distros.
@Nicholas
Not entirely correct. Though I'm sure it's not perfect, here's an open source implementation of Silver Light.
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
I really can't judge, since my monitor at work does 1240x1024
Hmmm Just wondering, people are asking can the computer handle it, I think they're are forgetting that for them to be truly watching HD, they need to be using a HD Monitor and using HDMI cable or something right , right ?
1080P is 1920x1080, so as long as someone has a monitor with at least that resolution, they can watch this video in its native resolution. I'm not sure what that question was....computers were doing "hd" long before TV's.
I would love to see them use the Silverlight Streaming thing even if it was just an option. Flash doesn't run as well as silverlight does. But obviously that would never work because silverlight is a microsoft product.
I don't think it'll be freaking awesome until they start allowing porn on YouTube again. Free 1080p porn would be freaking awesome!
That is one hot bitch (...in the video that is)
Freak'n awesome would be more R rated stuff on Youtube. Still don't see why we can't see a pair of melons every now and then on youtube.
Now all that needs to happen in Australia is for internet to become cheaper so people can afford the required bandwidth to watch this content without the need to wait an hour...
The problem is that even a 1Gb connection at your home won't help if the Youtube servers are too slow for even regular quality videos... (yes, that does happen sometimes)
@ibelike: YouTube is ALWAYS slow on my connection, even though I have a 16 down/3 up mbps connection. Other sites' videos load just fine, even in HD. I can't even imagine 1080P on YouTube. I'll have to click pause and let it load for a couple of days before watching it.
In my market, comcast packet shapes the traffic and makes you toube incredibly slow, basically unusable.. the player times out. so don't feel bad.
comcast isn't so bad, it usually works. im just worried about the bandwidth caps now with this being announced and their teevee service recently announced. : /
@Darwin - it is probably your computer then, not youtube.
I have a 30Mbit connection in Australia (Bigpone cable) and Youtube is horribly slow -- guess you can't blame Google, the costs associated with streaming millions of videos everyday would be a little on the MASSIVE side! :)
YAY! Full 1080p webcam pixelation for all! Seriously though, this will be a nice feature to have. I can't wait for people to be able to count the hairs on my eyebrows when I'm making a 9 minute blog that says so much, but nothing at the same time. I love youtube!!!
That and the jelly video assaulting your eyes. =(
awesome mannnnnnn. full hd video this is sickkkk
If Youtube aquired the capabilities of Hulu free for watch films, it would be fantastic! Hulu only sever US....
Hulu's ridiculous regional restrictions ensures that a thriving community of amateur TV show rippers and redistributers exists worldwide.
oh yea!!! Now my mac will run youtube even choppier!
Youtubes servers are too slow for 1080p, here i had access to a 60mbps connection and it still couldnt load much faster than the video played, and that was in standard definition
All depends on the time of day (how many simultaneous users) and the area you are (what youtube server/route you get), and on your ISP not throttling, because youtube represents a lot of bandwidth so I'm sure some lame-ass ISP's throttle that too yo save a penny.
But anyway, they've had 480/720p for a while now and I can't say I came across that many youtubes in even that format, seems when its HD it's some 'official' thing from the movie studios or the white house and such, and often a boring thing.
What kind of super computer and internet connection do you need to watch a 1080p video?
I was like "AWESOME!"
Then I realized it still used flash, and I was like "Cool, I guess".
I'm hoping the supercomputer needed is one with an atom processor, otherwise it would suck to drag my gaming desktop to the livingroom just for youtube in 1080P
My quad-core machine played the video just fine!
...with ~65% processing power used.
mine did fine on computer with intel D (the first one) 715 ram, 256mb graphics well and Ubuntu... on windows just triple all of those...
@ Backlin
That must be a really weak quad core... 65% usage? My i7 only used around 7% on that video.
I was hitting around 47% on both cores on a Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.7 GHz on Windows 7 (using Firefox).
I'm on 117% n a 2.8GHz C2D MBP w/ 4GB RAM
Will it run on my computer?
Its specs are:
1.6Ghz intel atom processor
nvidia ion graphics
1GB of memory
doubt it, as flash isn't powered by GPU but by the CPU, and atom can't handle that. Probably when adobe releases gpu accelerated flash
Now I'm curious - is mine powerful enough?
2.7GHZ Athlon II X2 215 (dual core)
Yes postal dude, but using 90% CPU, but still, it'll work if you don't do much else at the same time.
Thats odd I thought that flash was powered by my GPU considering with my Phenom II x4 940 it only uses 2-3% of power at 720p.
Holy crap!! Just run that 1080p test video on there and it gulps about 32% of my processing power. Adobe really need to do something about this a lot of computers are going to be in some real trouble with this such as the media centres.
I have a core 2 duo 2.4 ghz on my laptop and firefox used 54% processing power for that video.
Mac Pro here (2.66 Quad). It took 12% to play it back.
5 year old Pentium M 1.86 Ghz
96-99% Usage on XP SP3
That being said it played perfectly without any hiccups.
Well it doesn't use my GPU at all, and I have one that's perfectly capable of completely doing the HD thing on its own in DXVA enabled players.
And yes I have the latest flash and drivers, and seeing I know flash doesn't use the GPU much I'm calling you people out on BS'ing.
So I'll join in:
Yeah it plays with 0% CPU while my computer is in standby
Wait, did you guys use the actual 1080p sample AND hit the HD button and expanded to fullscreen?
Yep
if I upload a 1680x1050 video, will youtube re-encode it to 720p? or will it use same resolution?
Go to Delphi. I hear there's an oracle there.