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The thinnest video on YouTube [video]

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Here is thinner one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14

Had to upscale it to have at least 120x vertical (didn't do exact binary search on that), and on higher horizontal resolution it also appeared to crap out.

And I'm out of 24 hour upload limit...

No idea how to click the higher rez button but at least ytd works:

    -> ᛯ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=NtyCyZM6X14 
    [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading webpage
    [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading android player API JSON
    [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest
    [youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest
    [info] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading 1 format(s): 303+251
    [dashsegments] Total fragments: 3
    [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm
    [download] 100% of   86.17KiB in 00:00:00 at 105.60KiB/s
    [download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm
    [download] 100% of    4.43KiB in 00:00:00 at 20.76KiB/s
    [Merger] Merging formats into "uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].webm"
    Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
    Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm (pass -k to keep)
    [02:31:30] ^ [/tmp] 
    -> ᛯ mpv uberstatus\ \[NtyCyZM6X14\].webm 
     (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9 1920x36 50.000fps)
     (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz)
    AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
    VO: [gpu] 1920x36 yuv420p
    AV: 00:00:09 / 00:00:09 (99%) A-V:  0.000

The original was on 1920x22 but it got a bit stretched in me trying to find the working resolution combination. Probably could go a bit flatter

You nut. I love absolutely everything about this.

He's certainly broken YouTube, although I'm curious how much of the explanation is actually legitimate given this channel's prepensity for... being fictitious [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A

The script for this video seems written by an AI or something. The sentence structure is "<state a few facts>, because of this, <other things unrelated to previously stated facts>". He's speaking as though he were explaining something, but he's not.

Yes, the explanation of how colors are reproduced in monitors seemed to be completely unrelated to anything specific to youtube, or this particular video, and was just a bunch of words related to the topic strung together in an unusual way.

right? I had to stop watching it about half way in because it became so tedious and nonsensical.

That "the pixels have to agree" part seemed especially bogus.

Ok so it's an 8K video 100px tall with fake colors and fake 700px height? Interesting video but to be honest I couldn't understand the guy's technical explanation for it at all. It just sounded like mumbo jumbo to me. I mean, I'm not expecting Captain Disillusion-level effort of technical explanation but still... I feel like I learned nothing after watching that video.

Yup, although the "youtube shits out if you just upload long video" checks out

I've tried 1920x22px and it just returns "Processing abandoned. The video could not be processed."

1) It's not a static target (they could have patched this hole after the video was uploaded), 2) There is a lot of weird nuance to these containers and codecs that can let you expose deficiencies in video processors.

True but I managed to upload something else with weird ratio by just experimenting with "big X, small Y". From what I'm guessing there is both limit for too big X and too small Y

If you are reading comments first, the video is a wast of time. Doesn't explain what is going on, just a bunch of barely coherent words.

I don't understand how this was upvoted by hn community

At least it's not a thin vertical video...

Doesn't play on iOS.

Plays fine on my iPhone 13 mini. It’s actually quite comical watching it in Picture in Picture mode.

It works only if I open in a tab in Safari on a 14 Pro. If I just click the link and the app opens it, it shows an error in the player window.

Works fine on an S21 Ultra.

What's he talking about with the yellow colours though??

It's just nonsense. He's trying to describe the fact that monitors work by combining red/blue/green in to light that is perceived by the brain as yellow, vs a natural light that is actually one frequency and yellow.

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/color-theory-f...

My YouTube app won’t play any videos now. Wow.

Edit: rebooting the phone fixed it.

CloudTube displays the player of a proper width and maintains aspect ratio, but without controls: https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U

Invidious just shows the regular 16:9 player: https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5dl4EQ5d47U

I got it crashed on my try

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14

~480:9 ratio, source was scaled to 6300x120 to get it past YT (more optimization possible probably, ran out of uploads)

https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR

On Android, the last frame of the ad that played before the video became glitched and stayed on screen. I could see some of the video "behind" the video box, however, it was tall instead of wide.

https://imgur.com/a/qi55Y1p

works fine on my archaic Android 8.1 without gapps in Kiwi Browser with uBo, maybe I should update to some better newer Android and some browser without extensions to experience these bugs?

I hit 'widescreen mode' and now I can't get back.

For me, the video doesn't even fit on the browser (Safari) and I can't even see the content one the right (such as the like button, suggestions etc).

Pressing "t" switches to "Theater mode" and shrinks the player to fit inside the window. You should be able to see the like button and other content normally after enabling.

Why did it take so long to upload?

(Works fine on Brave for iOS)

I guess either he included time required to study YouTube's compression algorithms, or file was just too big. (Maybe you can't just upload the 1920×68 version and have to instead do the 30494×1080? Just guessing.)

Tried to do that (with y being 240 and x upscaled to max encoder size), also didn't process.

Weirdly enough I managed to get halfway done one, I uploaded it, at one point i could watch low res version, then it removed video

This would be a great rick roll opportunity

The Theater mode works fine on web. Default mode on the web breaks the UI. Nice!

Thanks. I couldn't get what's the point, since I'm always on Theater mode anyway.

For me the Seeking preview shows multiple frames stacked on top of each other.

Thumbnail also looks... interesting

Subtitles are absolutely TINY!

widest???

He did say it was very thick

What’s the aspect ratio?

480:17

Someone should buy twelve 21:9 monitors and place them side-by-side to watch the video (almost) fullscreen.

Doesn’t work on my IPhone.

This seems to have crashed my iPhone 13 Pro MAX. Screen froze on youtube app when i minimized the video. Cannot power off device ...

Update: seems to have recovered. every time I minimize the video in the app it freezes the video or crashes the app

Also didn't work on Android. I just got the last frame of the ad that preceded the video shown the whole time. Which is in of itself kind of an interesting bug!

Same here. 12 mini, tried in safari and YouTube app.

He seems to be talking gibberish.

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