Game:

Driveclub (2014)

Duration: 1:50

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Yo, the title's up there! Just kidding.

So basically this video shows you what the color information disparity looks like between very nearly lossless quality h.264 video and something approximately about as good YouTube quality video.

The original video files were compressed significantly multiple times before getting here and YT will transcode them once again after the upload is done. I really don't know how well this will come out, but I'm thinking about uploading the raw files if I didn't already erase them.

H.264 has a lossless compression format like PNG images which also offer lossless compression these files are much smaller than uncompressed video... How much smaller? Well the uncompressed version of this very video took up a whopping 38 gigabytes of space on my harddrive! This version is about 415MB. That's right the uploaded version is 1% the size of the uncompressed file it was derived from which was initially captured in a much smaller nearly lossless format (CRF 1 about 300,000 kbps).

The steps involved in making this happen are involved but pretty simple. I recorded near lossless video using OBS and compared the videos image quality to screenshots. The problem is that the captured lossless files don't play on my new Windows 10 Pro PC so I imported the videos into another application that could read them and output a transparent duplicate image from the video stream. From there I reduced the color data from the original file to copies of the original encoded at different levels in h.264 formst at the same framerate and resolution.
This process involved the use of 5 different applications and 3 days of trial and error...
All of this trial and error indicates that PCs are not the best platform for gaming, but that's a topic for another time...
In this video I try to find our if YouTube is really that as destructive to your videos as some claim and whether or not people can compare software especially games via video sharing platforms like it.

This video was made with the intention to shut the fanboys up, but I might just be proven wrong. I'll post my own assessment in the comments below.
Very curious what you all think of this and where YouTube's video quality puts it as a video sharing platform.

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