The YouTube 50fps/60fps 'hack' needs your attention

[PeteProdge]

(Apologies for the usage of 'hack', I know it's very over-used in clickbait headlines and is rarely appropriate.)

This warning applies to YouTube creators dealing with footage from ZX Spectrum and any other 8-bit machine, and almost certainly all 16-bits, 32-bits and well, practically everything up to and including the PlayStation 2/Original XBox/Sega Dreamcast/Nintendo Gamecube generation. (You could have just said 'standard definition' devices - Ed.)

Those of you who know YouTube a little better than most, will know that it will only show action above 30fps if it's been supplied in high definition resolution. Which has meant upscaling your standard definition material to a minimum of 720HD...

...or that was the case until recently. Stupidly, the minimum resolution has recently jumped to 1080HD. Any less than that, and YouTube will display it in 25/30fps.

Bear that in mind if you want to show the beautiful fluid sprite movement in Scumball or Zynaps.

Also, there's a rumour that YouTube is planning to paywall YouTube users who want to see content in 4K resolution - a potential thing there for those capturing current-gen and previous-gen footage.

[Nitrowing]

..or give youtube the finger and move to bitchute

[PeteProdge]

..or give youtube the finger and move to bitchute

That's filled with the tinfoil-hatted loons! Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole the length of an Amstrad CPC464!

[Nitrowing]

That's filled with the tinfoil-hatted loons! Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole the length of an Amstrad CPC464!

It most definitely is and I find it much more entertaining than Tube because of it
I've had 'a presence' on there for years as I avoid Tube like the plague - I refuse to feed Google.