Wen 144p nostr videos? #Amethyst
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Not for a while because there's no money for transcoding.
Are videos not loading for you? I think I uploaded this one in 240p https://video.nostr.build/9250b1a959772270e80eb9386450b3b9dc72e29d801c2be2a6fa1b9188daff32.webm
Isn't there a video codec that doesn't require transcoding for the various resolutions? I thought it was something like HLV or WebM, something like that...
A quick internet search reveals you're onto something, but this is brand new information to me, all I can tell you is webm is a container for a couple different codecs
OK. That's good to know about the webm container. So HLV then? I mean MPEG gave us DVDs and motion detection for surveillance cameras by only streaming the changes in the video frames... Why can't resolution be just another stream to peel out?
From what I can find, H264 technically has your concept in the spec, but no actual widespread implementation of that. Basically no way to use what people have right now to show them different video qualities without separate transcodes. Kind of an odd baked in limitation
What do you mean?
Displaying 144p videos in #amethyst... Or posting 144p videos?
Yes. Displaying. Amethyst KILLS my data, first couple days of each month. I used to be able to watch hundreds of YT videos until last week of each month on 20 GB of data... Nostr just seems to take ALL of my data... Maybe because too many relays? I dunno.
Too many relays could be a reason. Try to limit your relays to below 10. I haven't tested this but maybe some relays are chattier than others.
You can also switch video to WiFi only and it will not preload any videos.
Do you have a note id for the 144p video which is not working?
Thank you! Good to know about the <10 relays solution...
I was asking when Amethyst or any other nostr client would give the user ability to only download/stream 144p resolution videos in general... Not just the wifi switch... YouTube allows this. GrayJay allows this. NewPipe/Tubular allow this.
Oh I see. That will not happen any time soon.
Commercial video services transcode whatever you upload into many different resolutions. They can then serve whatever works best for you.
They have the resources to do that.
Amethyst does not store any data.
Maybe some nostr media server could do that in the future but it costs a lot of miney.
NewPipe is just a thin client downloading from YouTube media servers.