It has come to my attention that Youtube have been imposing an
extremely heavy-handed form of Automatic Gain Control which undermines
sound-quality to the extent of making my latest uploads virtually
unlistenable, and I understand that I am not alone in this
predicament. Assuming that it does in actual fact constitute a system
bug (which I sincerely hope is the case), I implore Youtube to take
steps to remedy this situation as soon as possible, as both the
current and potential ramifications are severe. Furthermore, I ask
that anyone similarly affected come forward and express their concerns
here, that Youtube might finally acknowledge and respond to our
collective distress.
Bill,
Can you also post on the long thread that this issue is devoted to,
and give us some indication what we are supposed to do? How long it
will take YT to correct this obvious mistake (with good intentions,
we're sure)? Even though there's been some improvement in the last
day, it's still not as good as virtually every other video sharing
site on the web. Which, for the largest and most visible video
sharing site in the world to have this particular issue (of all
issues), this issue just really doesn't make any sense at all to me.
If anything, the audio ought to be better, not worse!
Thank you for your time,
Larry
Here's the thread:
http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/163...
> Thanks for bringing up this issue. Our engineers are looking into the
> audio compression now.
> Bill
> On Jul 30, 1:14 am, dndn1011 wrote:> You can add me as well. It is driving me nuts. I now create 96Khz
> > audio and superimpose a 24Khz sine wave to fool the compressor.
Actually YouTube has had stereo ever sense I signed up and it's pretty
decent.
If you pop over to my channel you can hear it as I only record in
stereo. In most of my latest videos I've reminded people to look in
the more info spot see the link foth YouTube HD version of my same
content... Click it and poof a new window opens the content loads a
little slower... Pause it let it load to around half way and press
play...
If you're like me with a sub woofer and better speakers than the
average I think you like what you hear. :)
But for the normal res video stereo would slow low connection speeds
down I think. I'm not sure about it though.
Videos played back video YouTube's watch pages are mono...with 2ch
folded into a mono track. Couple that with a pretty low bitrate and
sampling and it produces a pretty lousy audio. If you are looking for
high fidelity...YouTube ain't it.
You can get stereo playback by adding the &fmt=18 switch to the
video's URL.
Listen to the difference between this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGkZGu0eyMo and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGkZGu0eyMo&fmt=18
In the first link, dogs and cats can be heard in both channels.
In the 2nd link the dogs are exclusively in the left and cats only in
the right, as the original 2ch source was.
> Actually YouTube has had stereo ever sense I signed up and it's pretty
> decent.
> If you pop over to my channel you can hear it as I only record in
> stereo. In most of my latest videos I've reminded people to look in
> the more info spot see the link foth YouTube HD version of my same
> content... Click it and poof a new window opens the content loads a
> little slower... Pause it let it load to around half way and press
> play...
> If you're like me with a sub woofer and better speakers than the
> average I think you like what you hear. :)
> But for the normal res video stereo would slow low connection speeds
> down I think. I'm not sure about it though.
