[whatwg] Video source selection based on quality (was: <video> feedback)

On 15 February 2010 23:07, Hugh Guiney <hugh.guiney at gmail.com> wrote:
> But even if we had a standard, YouTube further dilutes the meaning of
> these abbreviations since they now also have a toggle button (depicted
> as two arrows at a right angle) that expands or contracts the player
> but leaves the quality setting the same. So if you select "360p", and
> decide you want it to fill more of your screen, it will, but then it's
> no longer 360 pixels tall because it's been scaled.

Erm, what? The 360p refers to the 'native' resolution of the video
file youtube sends. If you play a 360p video fullscreen, it's still
only got 360 lines; they're just scaled up. It would be meaningless if
the number referred to the final playback size since that is
independent of the video quality.

Received on Monday, 15 February 2010 16:07:46 UTC