Saturday, December 5, 2009

YouTube: pageview featherweight

YouTube is testing a new page view for its videos with the aim to facilitate the rapid loading and reading. The initiative Lite Facebook seems to have given some ideas on YouTube. The famous site for sharing videos will in turn offer those who want a lighter version. As part of its incubator of ideas TestTube, YouTube proposes to test a version called for Feather pen.

YouTube has recently announced the move to 1080p mode for high-definition video, is well aware that not all users are not equal in terms of processing equipment or bandwidth for Internet access. One of the objectives of Feather is to address this disparity.

However, this does not change the compression level of a video, but to make some changes to the elements "parasites" of a pageview that could slow it.

With Feather, the player is configured by default for playback as standard, and therefore not necessarily HD. In addition, several features of YouTube are reduced to their minimum expression as videos submitted or reviews (much shorter list).

"All this results in a user experience that aims to keep things simple, loading and playing videos faster," said YouTube. Depending on the adoption of Feather and improvements in latency, this page featherweight way out or not laboratories YouTube. For now, Feather does not apply to all the videos and the user may choose to test or not since this page.

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