Odd History of the SD Logo [video]
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This one on "how analog tv works" I thought was especially good.
Yes, he has done a couple videos on analog video.
I also love analog video. I wish he would do one on analog HDTV and cover things like component.
In my own projects, I prefer component video. Unlike RGB, it can be used for a single wire, monochrome signal, complete with sync up to 1080p (on most sets with 1080i as a fallback).
Easy, light on resources and capable.
Anyway, I am a fan.
Seriously that video is overly long.
I think I recall reading that it's something to do with YouTube's algorithm? Videos of a certain minimum length, from channels that post with a minimum frequency, are more likely to be surfaced?
Edit: Why downvotes? What on earth is controversial about this?
YouTube videos are a format produced with entertainment value in mind, for those with 5 to 10 minutes to burn.
Videos below the two minute mark are barely worth YouTube’s JS payload, nevermind the video buffer.
If you want 30 second videos, you need to go cruise for WEBM files on your favorite image board, and expect to find a cache of interesting GIF images along the way, but try to contain your frustration at the lack of audio.
(btw: Above 20 minutes, and honestly, I still find optical discs preferrable to streaming services for a number of practical reasons, but most importantly: physical transmission of a tangible object for any large corpus data will always beat electromagnetic broadcast over a shared medium. #mytwocents)
After removing my tounge from cheek, this is an extremely annoying daily thing I have to deal with as well. I do searches expecting to quickly scan for the answer I need, but get results where the same text information has been converted to a video format. I can’t copy/paste text from a video.
Duckduckgo, too.
https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png
If you are seeing video links in Google it may be because you have favored those results in the past and big-G is showing you more of those because it thinks that you prefer them.
Getting to 3x consistently can be a hard barrier to break for some talking patterns like this guy's where he has periods of very slow speech and long breaks followed by periods of quick pace explanation with details but the payoff is relatively high.
I was inspired to give higher speeds a shot when I read a post by a blind user describing how many use >500 WPM text to speech (which sounds completely indecipherable at first) to navigate computer interfaces quickly.
Or the even easier: youtuble-dl plus VLC, with a slider for playback speed.
(of course YT caption quality is notoriously poor, but TBF it's a hard problem. And often you can get the gist of the message quickly, which is frequently all you want anyway).