[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/18/2014 6:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> Is there an easy way to download off of youtube one of DConf talks at
> the same quality as the archive.org content? -- Andrei
>

No, because of the re-encoding already mentioned. Re-encoding can never 
result in quality equal to the original source, unless you're 
re-encoding to a lossless format (which would almost always be pointless 
for various reasons).

That said though, YouTube's higher-qualities really aren't too bad, IME. 
Their encodings have come a good way since their horrible, horrible 
quality early years. Of course, I still think it's very good to offer 
the original non-reencoded version too.