DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:23:41 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 5/9/13 3:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Thanks to Michal Minich for pointing out YouTube actually did have
> > higher quality versions available, I'm now seeding a 720p MP4 Stereo
> > version of the video. The torrent is available along with the old
> > one here:
> >
> > http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/
> >
> 
> Awesome. Do you still need the original? I have it as a 600MB mp4
> file, not sure of the other details.
> 

The originals would be better since 1. they haven't been transcoded (or
at least haven't been transcoded an extra time) and 2. their
filesizes are apparently only a little bit larger than YouTube's
high-quality.

Transcoding a video just to end up with a file size that's comparable
to the original (as is the case with YouTube's high-quality version) is
kind of pointless since it inherently reduces quality for little-to-no
benefit. YouTube's lower quality version is nice just because it's a
significantly reduced filesize (even if it is in the goofy flv format),
but for a high quality version their transcoding is kind of a waste.