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Re: Aggressive EQing of All New Video Uploads.

epontius

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.

On Oct 2, 12:41 pm, SpinergyDude wrote:

> 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.