when you make a statement like "3 years ago" in the internet world, a difference of merely 3 years is a difference of an eternity.
3 years ago my stuff worked fine on youtube. but youtube has done umpteen upgrades with their site and video player software/rendering/etc.... to support more modes, more compression schemes, etc etc etc...
so it went from the original 320x240 15fps youtube original format to something thats insane nowadays, and if i remember correctly, thier latest video player/renderer upgrade now encodes and forces any new video uploads into a h264 format for the best quality with the least filesize, which is why even at 360 or 480p it plays awful, if at all.... However it did help thier server load quite alot, as it doesn't take as long to buffer a shorter file size.
So even though the "new" 240p still plays somewhat fine, but nowhere NEAR as good as it did "3 years ago" as everything was encoded using a different format then. Of course, youtube still supports WAP/mobile mode, using the old 320x240 format that buffers in quicktime, so even the earliest of the PPC macs can render the mobile compression scheme.
However, them keeping support of that will only shorten, as mobile devices reach the gigahertz range now and have 3d accelerators and rendering capabilities, something the "tegra" line started.
3 years ago my stuff worked fine on youtube. but youtube has done umpteen upgrades with their site and video player software/rendering/etc.... to support more modes, more compression schemes, etc etc etc...
so it went from the original 320x240 15fps youtube original format to something thats insane nowadays, and if i remember correctly, thier latest video player/renderer upgrade now encodes and forces any new video uploads into a h264 format for the best quality with the least filesize, which is why even at 360 or 480p it plays awful, if at all.... However it did help thier server load quite alot, as it doesn't take as long to buffer a shorter file size.
So even though the "new" 240p still plays somewhat fine, but nowhere NEAR as good as it did "3 years ago" as everything was encoded using a different format then. Of course, youtube still supports WAP/mobile mode, using the old 320x240 format that buffers in quicktime, so even the earliest of the PPC macs can render the mobile compression scheme.
However, them keeping support of that will only shorten, as mobile devices reach the gigahertz range now and have 3d accelerators and rendering capabilities, something the "tegra" line started.