Linus, you are seriously the only person worth listening to on technology information. seriously you 're light years ahead of, and beyond the rest of the people that are honestly giving their all, but just don't stack up.
Great job! I needed to find a way to describe this to some "higher ups" and couldn't find a way without getting too complicated and technical. This was super helpful.
Audio file won't play? VLC. Can't watch the DVD you just torrented (not that you would do that)? VLC. I've told people about that since high school and they think I'm a tech guru. Nope. Just a guy with Google. ...So maybe I am a tech guru.
remle ikawura if a system codec got messed up its because you messed it up klite keeps all current codec profiles the same but it does allow you to change them so maybe you hit something by accident and assumed it was klite that did it. o and if you set your default playback to higher than 44.1khz i believe it is will cause many games to crash because their codecs do not support anything higher
purekeynoob I've been using K-lite for close to 5 years on 3 different computers with AMD/Nvidia GPU's and I've never had anything crash due to a codec problem. If something crashes it almost ALWAYS because the game I'm playing is a wretched PC port in the first place and nothing to do with how my codecs are set up ;p
Techquickie I heard that using a VPN brings your speed up! Now my speed is fine at 30Mbps but 10 is kind of slow! Aleast that is what RUclips user Tek Syndicate said ! bensemus x That is to bad about your internet speed being to so slow. what carrier are you on? just asking!
heres a question: what defines quality? what IS quality? just more pixels? how come a compressed video (500MB) is 1080p but an uncompressed (60GB) is also 1080p but with more quality? what IS that additonal quality?? ty!
lossy compression is the process of creating averages in the data. For example a video codec might notice that there's a lot of white behind Linus and as such decide that instead of storing the slight alterations in colour it'll store it in blocks of colour instead. This is why if you watch a DVD you'll notice slightly blocky skies. This has the advantage of being much smaller but the disadvantage of irreparably changing the data. Uncompressed or Losslessly compressed data stores the data without actually changing the output at all. In its simplest form, each pixel has a colour value in each frame and is saved one by one. Lossless compression codecs will compress the file in a similar way to how a Zip file does but that's a lot to explain in a RUclips comment. Basically lossy compression actually removes data from the stream in a way its creators hope you won't notice. There's a lot of technology working to compress your videos - and its all based on what your human eye can't see, ie. Being as transparent as possible. Hope that helps!
Dang, Linus, you've been doing this a long time. Excellent explanation. I'd say keep up the great work, but, no need for that. That's just what you do, the way you role!
I recommend that service that is sponsoring this channel. It's a good VPN service if you have sites blocked by the network at school, college or at work.* *depends on network restrictions over time. I remember I could access Facebook at high school.
I beta test for them and at this moment I don't recommend them. People will fall into a trap. Well not trap but will be unhappy if they get it now. The apps on Mac and Android have been broke for a while now. Not staying connected. This is public release and BETA release. So shows they haven't a clue how to fix it. I have had to revert to a version before 2.0 on android. It works then but if you get it from the Google store it is broken.
That's unfortunate. When I used it (3 years ago), it worked great that I used its service trial then I went for a month service. It was worth it then. After that, I was like, "meh" and left it aside. I never touched it after that.
Marcus Smith yeah. As a beta tester it wouldn't bother me. But when the public release is doing it as well its annoying sure. Because I'm left with no choice to install third party style from an outdated version. But I spoke to Mike today and they are releasing an update tomorrow hopefully with fixes to these issues. Hopefully they do.
Codecs and containers are easily confused, for example .mp4 is usually associated with lossy video, but can also contain lossy AAC files as well as lossless compressed music files in the ALAC format: which is why it's usually changed to m4a.
'if all of this is still pretty confusing' i knew what codec was before, i just watched this video because i'm subscribed to it xD But, it's a very good explaination x
I've uploaded large files to RUclips because they refuse to support lossless codecs. The most recent one was about 18GB and had less than 5 minutes of video. Considering most of the size comes from me having to resize the video so RUclips actually uses a decent bitrate, a lossless codec would almost completely nullify the difference in filesizes due to information hardly changing.
What are the differences between different audio connections? optical vs analog vs hdmi etc. I am always very confused about the tradeoffs and the medium that offers the best quality.
Hi all. I'm confused about codecs. I want to upload video I've used my phone to record at 4k60fps with the H.264 codec. Phone video is variable frame rate which means I have to convert it to a constant frame rate. My editor gives me good, better, best options which are H.264, DNxHR, and UT Video respectively. DNxHR and UT Video are insanely huge but uncompressed. I'm wondering if there would be any difference in quality though going from H.264 to H.264? Then when it is time what should I export to? If I understand correctly RUclips is going to use VP9 but does my export codec have any impact on end product on RUclips? How do I balance this out because a 30 minute video with one of the larger codecs is roughly 500gb which with a 50mbps upload(fastest I can get) it will take almost a day. So short version is, when converting a 4k60fps H.264 video from VFR to CFR does using H.264 cause more loss or do I need a better codec? Whatever codec I used for conversion, what should I use to determine export codec after editing if my intent is 4k60fps uploading to RUclips that will use VT9?
SomeNiceMovies You didn't jump into my segue, of course it was meant to be a bluff. I'm an IT student and as you expect I do lots of programming and I just built a computer about a month ago :) So please, be nice.
NeilFX GOM eats VLC any day of the week. So much more settings to set, better codec system, easier to use and more advanced if you want it to be. VLC doesn't even come close. I used VLC for about 4-5 years or something. It had alot of bugs, it's crashing alot and some other problems. Have had very small and very few issues with GOM. And the ones I've had got solved by a simple google search. Whereas when I googled for VLC problems, no one had the sollution. My friends still use VLC. They complain alot. The ones that use GOM complain WAY less and some of them never. Your IT studenting didn't help you on this question, man. Use GOM for another year and then come back to say that it's worse. If you do say it is you'll be lying.
3:53 NO MAN! VLC Sucks. It's audio stream is slightly stretching its speed although I do nothing in the speed selector. I must appreciate its Fluidsynth MIDI codec too, unless it make Reverb and Chorus (Flanger) to its MAXIMUM level everytime making MIDI an earraping mess. It is a must to mention KMPlayer which is BETTER. As a fan of Baiscopelk.com, Sinhala subtitles are 100% accurate in KMPlayer, rather than your traffic cone which makes all of the diacritics in WRONG positions. All It lacks a Fluidsynth. But who cares? It just direct it to the MIDI Mapper just as the Windows Media Player. Did you make a video about MIDI? If you will, mention Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth!)
Just for an idea of how big these audio files can be, titanfall uses uncompressed audio for the PC version, the game is only 15GB while the audio is 35GB. So just the uncompressed audio is more than double the file size of everything else in the game.
Soooo, if i want to record stuff, what codec should i use. I have an AMD graphic card and i mostly use the H.264 codec provided by AMD. I am confused :(
Oh and also, i have a HD7770 right now, i want to change to a nvidia card. But my budget only allow me to get a gtx760 at most. But i also want more rams. So should i get a gtx660ti with 2gb of rams or what??I want to play smooth on BF3 and planetside2 . Also, i am trying to save money for the games coming:) so not much budget.
Please explain the differences between 120htz TV's and 120htz Monitors. Advantages and disadvantages. But mainly, why advertised 120htz TV will only play 60htz when a computer is plugged in.
ShadowMassacr13 she NEEDS to know what codecs or a RAID configuration is ? sure it wouldn't hurt but then she'd be the coolest mom ever and we can't have that
Well I actually have a problem: I bought a NAS and transfere all my pictures, music and movies on to it. But I am not able to use it on my Panasonic Viera TV! It detect the NAS, but not a single file, picture or video that I have on it. I was on costumer suport with Panasonic for some time exhaning some like 8 e-mails. Befor they cind of just said. I have "wrong codec" on all the stuff I put on my NAS. So the TV does not suport it. So, can I change codec and / or can I some how fix this in any way? Please help he with this.
What about where there are fewer colours in the image particularly at darker ranges where it is so horrible and looks so bad. Like a sunset where the gradient change of colours throught the sky suddenly changes from each section to next with very noticable difference in colour between them raher than gradual. This is another form of compression I presume? What is that particular form of compression called? I'm guessing youtube uses it and that you cant change it by any chance even when uploading?! hah - I mean it is really bad sometimes. Why cant that type of compression be removed but keep the others? Or is it just with h.264 or whatever that you just get what you get and h264 is what it is and you cant change different parts of the compression or encode with some compression features but not others. I want hq 4k vids but this apparent youtube compression spoils them. Do they just use standard h264?
Sh4rkill3r That's kinda the point, it's overloaded, so you'll be able to play anything from anywhere. They could cut out half the codecs, and still have it work 90% of the time, but then it would lose its appeal.
Quarker If you didn't understand some of this and your a software engineer get a refund on that education asap m8. I'm just a arm-chair tech enthusiast but this all made perfect sense with even my very limited knowledge of audio and video.
***** I'm still a student, there's the first point. Only halfway through my degree. Most of what I've learned so far do not include the technicalities of multimedia. This video's still good, I'm not saying it isn't, but towards the end I started getting lost.
I used to use K-Lite and always had a backup player in the form of KMPlayer, because K-Lite just doesn't work with everything. Then i switched to KMPlayer entirely since it worked better than K-Lite, but then they "evolved" and i had to get rid of it, and now i use GOM Player, so far so good. I didn't like VLC for a lot of reasons (not playback related)
A hardware codec isn't just a DAC and ADC, though... You can get hardware Encoders and Decoders for all those compression standards you pointed out... I should know, I work in a team that writes drivers for a Video Decoder at my job. :P
LOVE YOU LINUS! also tell hotspot shield it just got a new friend since now i can take full advantage of netflix! love them! cheap too! best around!.... now you wont see me for at least a year got that much to watch!
so basically, with higher and higher video quality coming to a end within the next decade (getting as detailed as the human eye allows) and with videos remaining the same length in duration, as well as 5g around the corner we just have to wait for Moore's law to catch up to where lossless compression no longer becomes an issue, where net speeds can stream 60 gigs worth with ease, and hard drive space reaches into the hundreds of terabytes, is this correct, or will it ALWAYS be a "cat and mouse game" within a lifetimes (foreseeable) future? (now to 50 years from now?)
Quickie episode suggestion. Mice sensor types and dpi. I was recently wondering about the dpi mostly. At around 4k dpi that most gamer mice offer these days, 1cm of movement of the mouse gives you like 2000px movement of the cursor on the screen. That makes it impossible to operate so.... why go that high with the dpi? Is this just for the marketing?
Techquickie tell us about the ongoing revolution of HEVC/H.265 + x265 and how its processing power disadvantages are continuously being mitigated in the CPU-GPU world as we speak into possibly the best codec tradeoff so far.
surprised linus didnt mention GOM player, after VLC. For some reason, movies look better on GOM player, than VLC (which makes no sense to me since VLC is streaming). Anyone, what's best place for GOM player codec pack?
2:10 The technology exists! It just hasn't been widely adopted yet. Unfortunately by the time we can finally start streaming lossless 1080p people will probably need 4K and beyond, which will force us to go back to compression again.
The few drawbacks i have seen with vlc is. No .wav support... wtf is the use for that one anyways? Seems to only be used for 8 bit or 16 bit audio, and last time i had one it was a pain in the ass to convert. Cant play gif files... dunno why. Wmp does both of thesw though and this where i use it.
I use K-Lite Codec Pack (Mega). It can integrate itself with Windows Media Player to play formats not originally designed to play, such as *.flv, *.mkv, and *.ogg. The benefits are more noticeable in Windows XP than say Windows 7 because WMP11 plays less formats on its own compared to WMP12, although both media players can benefit. It even has a DVD decoder; ffmpeg or LAV. One of the biggest problems with Windows 8/8.1 is that DVD playback has been forced out of WMP12. I understand that Microsoft didn't want to include the codecs anymore past Windows 7 because money but why not leave the DVD option in the menus? The worst that would happen is an error that no codec has been installed. Microsoft's reasoning is forcing standards of live streaming content rather than having backwards compatibility with the older disk formats. True, VLC Media Player can run on Windows 8/8.1 but why not leave the DVD playback open-ended?
@@simulping4371 Yes, thats even good but one need to set it manually using Windows Environment feature to add it as an environment value and that's how it's a bit complicated!
@@watchowlgaming5686 the installation is actually really easy (you're not even installing it) the hardest part is to remember every parameters for each different codecs
@@watchowlgaming5686 once you get used to it its really easy though ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 26 -movflags +faststart -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 80K -profile:a aac_he_v2 output.mp4
+Ankit Guliani In most contexts it is a software component responsible for encoding and/or decoding compressed media streams (like video or audio streams).
+Ankit Guliani As Linus, I'm guessing his name is, said, software codecs pack up data. So does this mean that a codec compresses data (not that I really know for sure what that means) ? And if so, is there any data loss during this?
This! Still left me confused the reason codecs still matter is because you have Xbox and other consoles but require you to format your media certain way and that's why I still have to understand them even though I don't want to
I want movies available for download In the original format. RAW video and lossless audio, forget storage I'll go buy a 1tb hard drive for less than $80 to keep it on.
I rip all my CD's into WAV and FLAC files, I'll settle for a 320kb MP3 or AAC file from Itunes if I have to, and mainly only with rap/hip hop since that genre tends to be harder to distinguish from lossless to lossy probably due to smaller dynamic range compared to other genres using real instruments.
CCCP codec pack is in every way superior to VLC. Customized MPC-HC is the best media player there is. It just takes some effort to get everything work properly. For people who are interested, Google "MPC HC advanced setup guide" and follow the AV Science Forum suggestion.
If you sent a file that is formatted using one codec, and sent it to another computer without that codec , is it that the second computer can't read it without the same codec?
A few questions for future vids. You mentioned that different codecs are better for different situations. Could you elaborate on that? Also, a very interesting problem I wanted to talk about. A lot of players (VLC included) offer slower playback options, but their options only read their media in 24fps. When using my GoPro at, say, 120fps, this is really frustrating. Is there some way to get a media player to play in slo-mo using the full 120fps data? Everything I've tried (WMP, VLC, HP Video, etc) can't seem to do it. Thanks!
Hopefully someone sees this, and can point me in the right direction: My gen 1 chromecast consistently chops the audio when youtube videos are highly static for a few seconds. It's like the audio codec stumbles when the video codec is idle. Typical case is powerpoint slides and other low information screens. This is only a minor nuisance to me, but I'm really curious about what's going on...
Thanks for this vid I really need this for a little explanation but can you do some indepth and more explanation on this subject really need to know a lot more info.
So when i play a bluray ripped .avi file, the resolution is quite good, but its kinda choppy and not synced with the audio, is it my player or is the video file just bad?
If you try to play the file on multiple players and get the same results it's probably not the player. Try VLC, MPC-HC, and another one like Potplayer. It could be the vid file is bad or not synced properly. Or it might be your computer is not powerful enough to play the file. If the file uses a more cpu/graphic intensive codec, like H.264, that can cause choppy playback if your pc isn't up to snuff. You can use a program like MediaInfo to find out what codecs the file contains.
Okay, I have a question. What are these Codex things you see on pirating sites??? I don't use them, or pirate at all for that matter, I'm just very curious as to what these "Codex" things do. Is it full software, or just some type of launcher thing. Plz reply. :D
9 years later and this video is still relevant and helpful
Linus, you are seriously the only person worth listening to on technology information. seriously you 're light years ahead of, and beyond the rest of the people that are honestly giving their all, but just don't stack up.
Great job! I needed to find a way to describe this to some "higher ups" and couldn't find a way without getting too complicated and technical. This was super helpful.
ruclips.net/video/rbv3dgUIz94/видео.html
Audio file won't play? VLC.
Can't watch the DVD you just torrented (not that you would do that)? VLC.
I've told people about that since high school and they think I'm a tech guru. Nope. Just a guy with Google.
...So maybe I am a tech guru.
Don't say tech guru.
Sexy Tech guru
another alternative is PotPlayer
Lol 2014
do you still alive?
The typography in the recent videos has improved soooo much! I appreciate that!
4:00 Hmmm... Are you sure that it isn't going to install Stalin on my comouter?
On our computer?
lol how could anyone be certain
And this is how the Soviet Union was revived
and that saved my school presentation
thanks linus :)
Very helpful for my College assignment, ty!
haha class guy, actually i recently finished an assignment on different file types for photos/video.
***** whats wrong?
always preferred Klite for my all in one codec needs. Updates way more often then CCCP does and contains the same stuff.
that was my first thought too... what no mention of k-lite
remle ikawura if a system codec got messed up its because you messed it up klite keeps all current codec profiles the same but it does allow you to change them so maybe you hit something by accident and assumed it was klite that did it. o and if you set your default playback to higher than 44.1khz i believe it is will cause many games to crash because their codecs do not support anything higher
purekeynoob
I've been using K-lite for close to 5 years on 3 different computers with AMD/Nvidia GPU's and I've never had anything crash due to a codec problem. If something crashes it almost ALWAYS because the game I'm playing is a wretched PC port in the first place and nothing to do with how my codecs are set up ;p
Asfaik, CCCP last update in 1991
+1 for flawless transition from content to advertising.
9 years later and still best explanation on youtube
I use K-Lite Codec Pack and its MPC-HC. Because I am used to MPC-HC hotkeys which are great, can't live without them
agreed
Exia2004 it causes too much problems
Ubeogesh FFmpeg.
I tried hotspot shield it brought my connection down to 10Mbps I us usually have 30-35Mbps!
Good video!
Due to the way a VPN works (redirecting all of the traffic through a central server) speed and latency will always be worse.
Techquickie lol not for me. My speed finally went up to my advertised 3Mbps.
3Mbps :(
Techquickie I heard that using a VPN brings your speed up! Now my speed is fine at 30Mbps but 10 is kind of slow! Aleast that is what RUclips user Tek Syndicate said !
bensemus x
That is to bad about your internet speed being to so slow. what carrier are you on? just asking!
I live in a small town in the middle of mountains. Small being 10K. my carrier is Telus.
Techquickie Do a fast as possible on VPNs!
The graphics in this video are really good. Linus Media is stepping up the skill level!
stupid comment
Thanks for the compressed, low latency explanation video.
♥️
heres a question: what defines quality? what IS quality? just more pixels? how come a compressed video (500MB) is 1080p but an uncompressed (60GB) is also 1080p but with more quality? what IS that additonal quality?? ty!
The difference is in lossy compression, think of it like chopping of more or less parts of the clip.
There is a video on computerphile's channel if you want a good explanation. It's actually quite interesting
it has a higher bit rate
lossy compression is the process of creating averages in the data. For example a video codec might notice that there's a lot of white behind Linus and as such decide that instead of storing the slight alterations in colour it'll store it in blocks of colour instead. This is why if you watch a DVD you'll notice slightly blocky skies. This has the advantage of being much smaller but the disadvantage of irreparably changing the data. Uncompressed or Losslessly compressed data stores the data without actually changing the output at all. In its simplest form, each pixel has a colour value in each frame and is saved one by one. Lossless compression codecs will compress the file in a similar way to how a Zip file does but that's a lot to explain in a RUclips comment. Basically lossy compression actually removes data from the stream in a way its creators hope you won't notice. There's a lot of technology working to compress your videos - and its all based on what your human eye can't see, ie. Being as transparent as possible.
Hope that helps!
Eoin Fitzpatrick nigga please, increasing the bit rate aint making it that much more
The video helped a lot with my vocational school exam. Thank you so much!
Dang, Linus, you've been doing this a long time. Excellent explanation. I'd say keep up the great work, but, no need for that. That's just what you do, the way you role!
Linus do you have my Google Search History?????
Your videos lately are eerily correlated to my Google searches.
4:10 One of the better sponsor segues that they've done on Techquickie.
I recommend that service that is sponsoring this channel. It's a good VPN service if you have sites blocked by the network at school, college or at work.*
*depends on network restrictions over time.
I remember I could access Facebook at high school.
I beta test for them and at this moment I don't recommend them. People will fall into a trap. Well not trap but will be unhappy if they get it now. The apps on Mac and Android have been broke for a while now. Not staying connected. This is public release and BETA release. So shows they haven't a clue how to fix it. I have had to revert to a version before 2.0 on android. It works then but if you get it from the Google store it is broken.
That's unfortunate. When I used it (3 years ago), it worked great that I used its service trial then I went for a month service. It was worth it then. After that, I was like, "meh" and left it aside. I never touched it after that.
Marcus Smith yeah. As a beta tester it wouldn't bother me. But when the public release is doing it as well its annoying sure. Because I'm left with no choice to install third party style from an outdated version. But I spoke to Mike today and they are releasing an update tomorrow hopefully with fixes to these issues. Hopefully they do.
sammyjc89 Oh well. Good thing I don't need it anymore.
Just an update. Next public release will be fixed. BETA app is working perfect. Look out for 2.0.5
Needs more JPEG.
jpeg sucks though
XxAdminChllaxX Truth ^^
PNG Master race!
sfaddic182 exactly.. Why would you use .gif anyway beside from animations?
I was saying "Needs more JPEG" as a joke.
Its just something you say to someone who shows you a shit picture.
After many years i finally got my answer... thanks dude.
At least this video was not just an advertisement for Cooler Master...
Codecs and containers are easily confused, for example .mp4 is usually associated with lossy video, but can also contain lossy AAC files as well as lossless compressed music files in the ALAC format: which is why it's usually changed to m4a.
Props Linus, your first ad that is actually related with the video content!
Nice, simple, and informative video!
'if all of this is still pretty confusing' i knew what codec was before, i just watched this video because i'm subscribed to it xD
But, it's a very good explaination x
I've uploaded large files to RUclips because they refuse to support lossless codecs. The most recent one was about 18GB and had less than 5 minutes of video. Considering most of the size comes from me having to resize the video so RUclips actually uses a decent bitrate, a lossless codec would almost completely nullify the difference in filesizes due to information hardly changing.
did anyone else get this video when looking up the metal gear Codec Conversions
Very complicated subject to learn, and very interesting video tutorial to watch. Thank you a lot!
1:44
The breaths are real.
VLC FTW!
CCCP for life! :P
Garth S You can't beat open-source!
What are the differences between different audio connections? optical vs analog vs hdmi etc. I am always very confused about the tradeoffs and the medium that offers the best quality.
Great Sponsor transition
Hi all. I'm confused about codecs. I want to upload video I've used my phone to record at 4k60fps with the H.264 codec. Phone video is variable frame rate which means I have to convert it to a constant frame rate. My editor gives me good, better, best options which are H.264, DNxHR, and UT Video respectively. DNxHR and UT Video are insanely huge but uncompressed. I'm wondering if there would be any difference in quality though going from H.264 to H.264? Then when it is time what should I export to? If I understand correctly RUclips is going to use VP9 but does my export codec have any impact on end product on RUclips? How do I balance this out because a 30 minute video with one of the larger codecs is roughly 500gb which with a 50mbps upload(fastest I can get) it will take almost a day.
So short version is, when converting a 4k60fps H.264 video from VFR to CFR does using H.264 cause more loss or do I need a better codec? Whatever codec I used for conversion, what should I use to determine export codec after editing if my intent is 4k60fps uploading to RUclips that will use VT9?
Wow nicely done Linus! Love TechQuicke and would love to see more content from it!
ruclips.net/video/rbv3dgUIz94/видео.html
Is it possible to shrink a video file to ultra small size so i can store more movies in my 500gb hdd???
Install GOM Player instead of VLC, upvote this after testing. It's the best media player out there, no doubt about it.
I don't think GOM is catching up the mainstream media players. VLC appears to be the best in terms of reliability and user-experience.
NeilFX Haha, atleast you're funny, But you don't know that much about computers and stuff. Should I use smaller words maybe? :)
SomeNiceMovies You didn't jump into my segue, of course it was meant to be a bluff. I'm an IT student and as you expect I do lots of programming and I just built a computer about a month ago :) So please, be nice.
I agree, its amazing. I have VLC but its ugly, the settings and the UI of GOM are great.
NeilFX GOM eats VLC any day of the week. So much more settings to set, better codec system, easier to use and more advanced if you want it to be. VLC doesn't even come close. I used VLC for about 4-5 years or something. It had alot of bugs, it's crashing alot and some other problems. Have had very small and very few issues with GOM. And the ones I've had got solved by a simple google search. Whereas when I googled for VLC problems, no one had the sollution.
My friends still use VLC. They complain alot. The ones that use GOM complain WAY less and some of them never.
Your IT studenting didn't help you on this question, man. Use GOM for another year and then come back to say that it's worse. If you do say it is you'll be lying.
3:53 NO MAN! VLC Sucks. It's audio stream is slightly stretching its speed although I do nothing in the speed selector. I must appreciate its Fluidsynth MIDI codec too, unless it make Reverb and Chorus (Flanger) to its MAXIMUM level everytime making MIDI an earraping mess. It is a must to mention KMPlayer which is BETTER. As a fan of Baiscopelk.com, Sinhala subtitles are 100% accurate in KMPlayer, rather than your traffic cone which makes all of the diacritics in WRONG positions. All It lacks a Fluidsynth. But who cares? It just direct it to the MIDI Mapper just as the Windows Media Player. Did you make a video about MIDI? If you will, mention Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth!)
You know this video is 7 years old right
Just for an idea of how big these audio files can be, titanfall uses uncompressed audio for the PC version, the game is only 15GB while the audio is 35GB. So just the uncompressed audio is more than double the file size of everything else in the game.
Soooo, if i want to record stuff, what codec should i use. I have an AMD graphic card and i mostly use the H.264 codec provided by AMD. I am confused :(
Oh and also, i have a HD7770 right now, i want to change to a nvidia card. But my budget only allow me to get a gtx760 at most. But i also want more rams. So should i get a gtx660ti with 2gb of rams or what??I want to play smooth on BF3 and planetside2 . Also, i am trying to save money for the games coming:) so not much budget.
Alan Resnick has another video on RUclips that might help answer your question.
1:56 "lossy" compressed/autotuned pun?
Please explain the differences between 120htz TV's and 120htz Monitors. Advantages and disadvantages. But mainly, why advertised 120htz TV will only play 60htz when a computer is plugged in.
Nearly every file format is a container.
Even a mp3 can store data like the track name, album cover or artist
You saying I can embed .rar files into an mp3 like I can with jpegs?
Low-level programming as fast as possible
I'm not sure that people who need Techquickie would even understand what programming is
ShadowMassacr13
nobody "needs" Techquickie, but it's good to watch
Joe G.P. My mom needs Techquickie.
ShadowMassacr13
she NEEDS to know what codecs or a RAID configuration is ? sure it wouldn't hurt but then she'd be the coolest mom ever and we can't have that
Joe G.P. Well when she has a son who talks about such things 24/7...
Well I actually have a problem: I bought a NAS and transfere all my pictures, music and movies on to it. But I am not able to use it on my Panasonic Viera TV! It detect the NAS, but not a single file, picture or video that I have on it. I was on costumer suport with Panasonic for some time exhaning some like 8 e-mails. Befor they cind of just said. I have "wrong codec" on all the stuff I put on my NAS. So the TV does not suport it.
So, can I change codec and / or can I some how fix this in any way?
Please help he with this.
Dear Techquickie, can u please explain the differences between modem and routers? and what good use are wireless/wired modems/routers?
One of the best media players is potplayer , i find it better than the other options with its rich features and ease of use .
2:30 woa wait their CPU heavy??? i was under the impression that we use them for proxy editing because they aren't.
CCCP huh? Seems like Russia got Linus too...
Loved It linus! Now I can show this to my wife when a certain file(her movie or show) won't stream or play on her N7
What about where there are fewer colours in the image particularly at darker ranges where it is so horrible and looks so bad. Like a sunset where the gradient change of colours throught the sky suddenly changes from each section to next with very noticable difference in colour between them raher than gradual. This is another form of compression I presume? What is that particular form of compression called? I'm guessing youtube uses it and that you cant change it by any chance even when uploading?! hah - I mean it is really bad sometimes. Why cant that type of compression be removed but keep the others? Or is it just with h.264 or whatever that you just get what you get and h264 is what it is and you cant change different parts of the compression or encode with some compression features but not others. I want hq 4k vids but this apparent youtube compression spoils them. Do they just use standard h264?
I prefer KLite Codec Pack
me too
I used to use that, then I found VLC Player.
ChaoticWolf vlc is overloaded with shit.
Sh4rkill3r That's kinda the point, it's overloaded, so you'll be able to play anything from anywhere. They could cut out half the codecs, and still have it work 90% of the time, but then it would lose its appeal.
ThoolooExpress klite mega + mediaplayerclassic run everything too. i have both installed and i never use vlc. is so slow compared to mpc.
lossless > opus > aac > mp3
This is way to advanced for tech quickie, though it was meant to explain more simply
-_-
Same here, some of these explanations are over my head and I'm a software engineering student.
Quarker If you didn't understand some of this and your a software engineer get a refund on that education asap m8. I'm just a arm-chair tech enthusiast but this all made perfect sense with even my very limited knowledge of audio and video.
***** I'm still a student, there's the first point. Only halfway through my degree. Most of what I've learned so far do not include the technicalities of multimedia. This video's still good, I'm not saying it isn't, but towards the end I started getting lost.
I used to use K-Lite and always had a backup player in the form of KMPlayer, because K-Lite just doesn't work with everything. Then i switched to KMPlayer entirely since it worked better than K-Lite, but then they "evolved" and i had to get rid of it, and now i use GOM Player, so far so good.
I didn't like VLC for a lot of reasons (not playback related)
most contain bloatware and malware. be careful
A hardware codec isn't just a DAC and ADC, though...
You can get hardware Encoders and Decoders for all those compression standards you pointed out... I should know, I work in a team that writes drivers for a Video Decoder at my job. :P
The only Codec (software) I use is to compress AVI files into waAAAAYYY smaller versions with unnoticeable quality difference. (useful for FRAPS)
LOVE YOU LINUS! also tell hotspot shield it just got a new friend since now i can take full advantage of netflix! love them! cheap too! best around!.... now you wont see me for at least a year got that much to watch!
so basically, with higher and higher video quality coming to a end within the next decade (getting as detailed as the human eye allows) and with videos remaining the same length in duration, as well as 5g around the corner we just have to wait for Moore's law to catch up to where lossless compression no longer becomes an issue, where net speeds can stream 60 gigs worth with ease, and hard drive space reaches into the hundreds of terabytes, is this correct, or will it ALWAYS be a "cat and mouse game" within a lifetimes (foreseeable) future? (now to 50 years from now?)
Quickie episode suggestion. Mice sensor types and dpi. I was recently wondering about the dpi mostly. At around 4k dpi that most gamer mice offer these days, 1cm of movement of the mouse gives you like 2000px movement of the cursor on the screen. That makes it impossible to operate so.... why go that high with the dpi? Is this just for the marketing?
Wow first time i actually liked a sponsor
I usually use PotPlayer or Media Player Classic to play video.
Ted H PotPlayer ftw
waited 4 minutes, hoping you would recommend VLC &/or CCCP.
forever on my essetials-download list, for clean installs !
- love the show
4:00 IT'S MP CLASSIC NOT WMP CLASSIC, WINDOWS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT (don't mind the anger, it just goes well with my profile picture)
I have always used K-lite codec pack, you get the choise if you want to install WMP classic and gives you alot of codecs.
Thank you very much of explaining this. Got a lot of things in mind.
Techquickie tell us about the ongoing revolution of HEVC/H.265 + x265 and how its processing power disadvantages are continuously being mitigated in the CPU-GPU world as we speak into possibly the best codec tradeoff so far.
surprised linus didnt mention GOM player, after VLC. For some reason, movies look better on GOM player, than VLC (which makes no sense to me since VLC is streaming). Anyone, what's best place for GOM player codec pack?
2:10
The technology exists! It just hasn't been widely adopted yet. Unfortunately by the time we can finally start streaming lossless 1080p people will probably need 4K and beyond, which will force us to go back to compression again.
Great video, I really like this channel! :-)
The few drawbacks i have seen with vlc is.
No .wav support... wtf is the use for that one anyways? Seems to only be used for 8 bit or 16 bit audio, and last time i had one it was a pain in the ass to convert.
Cant play gif files... dunno why. Wmp does both of thesw though and this where i use it.
I use K-Lite Codec Pack (Mega). It can integrate itself with Windows Media Player to play formats not originally designed to play, such as *.flv, *.mkv, and *.ogg. The benefits are more noticeable in Windows XP than say Windows 7 because WMP11 plays less formats on its own compared to WMP12, although both media players can benefit. It even has a DVD decoder; ffmpeg or LAV.
One of the biggest problems with Windows 8/8.1 is that DVD playback has been forced out of WMP12. I understand that Microsoft didn't want to include the codecs anymore past Windows 7 because money but why not leave the DVD option in the menus? The worst that would happen is an error that no codec has been installed. Microsoft's reasoning is forcing standards of live streaming content rather than having backwards compatibility with the older disk formats. True, VLC Media Player can run on Windows 8/8.1 but why not leave the DVD playback open-ended?
*VLC* is perfect for playing any type of video and audio files!!!
And for video compression, *Handbrake* is the best!!!
handbrake is meh if you're a power user, chads use custom built ffmpeg
@@simulping4371 Yes, thats even good but one need to set it manually using Windows Environment feature to add it as an environment value and that's how it's a bit complicated!
@@watchowlgaming5686 the installation is actually really easy (you're not even installing it)
the hardest part is to remember every parameters for each different codecs
@@simulping4371 Yes, yes I actually want to say that, just mixed up the things!
@@watchowlgaming5686 once you get used to it its really easy though
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 26 -movflags +faststart -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 80K -profile:a aac_he_v2 output.mp4
So is a codec a file format? Or is it a program/software that performs the actions? Or is it a driver that works with different file types?
+Ankit Guliani In most contexts it is a software component responsible for encoding and/or decoding compressed media streams (like video or audio streams).
+jayvl09 thanks
+Ankit Guliani As Linus, I'm guessing his name is, said, software codecs pack up data. So does this mean that a codec compresses data (not that I really know for sure what that means) ? And if so, is there any data loss during this?
yes it compresses or decompresses. Compression may be lossy or lossless depending on which codec and settings are used.
+jayvl09 ok thx man!! Much appreciated
Love CCCP, used it since Naruto 65.
or you could download Klite codec pack this contains almost every audio and video codec and you don't have to install an other media player.
This! Still left me confused the reason codecs still matter is because you have Xbox and other consoles but require you to format your media certain way and that's why I still have to understand them even though I don't want to
What about if youtube videos are buffering slow and no problems with anything else besides youtube?
this video would be better with an update
nice, I've never really looked too deep into this stuff I just install cccp and don't worry about it.
I want movies available for download In the original format. RAW video and lossless audio, forget storage I'll go buy a 1tb hard drive for less than $80 to keep it on.
I rip all my CD's into WAV and FLAC files, I'll settle for a 320kb MP3 or AAC file from Itunes if I have to, and mainly only with rap/hip hop since that genre tends to be harder to distinguish from lossless to lossy probably due to smaller dynamic range compared to other genres using real instruments.
CCCP codec pack is in every way superior to VLC. Customized MPC-HC is the best media player there is. It just takes some effort to get everything work properly. For people who are interested, Google "MPC HC advanced setup guide" and follow the AV Science Forum suggestion.
3:50 k-lite codec pack plis >:v
If you sent a file that is formatted using one codec, and sent it to another computer without that codec , is it that the second computer can't read it without the same codec?
A few questions for future vids. You mentioned that different codecs are better for different situations. Could you elaborate on that?
Also, a very interesting problem I wanted to talk about. A lot of players (VLC included) offer slower playback options, but their options only read their media in 24fps. When using my GoPro at, say, 120fps, this is really frustrating. Is there some way to get a media player to play in slo-mo using the full 120fps data? Everything I've tried (WMP, VLC, HP Video, etc) can't seem to do it. Thanks!
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Hopefully someone sees this, and can point me in the right direction:
My gen 1 chromecast consistently chops the audio when youtube videos are highly static for a few seconds. It's like the audio codec stumbles when the video codec is idle. Typical case is powerpoint slides and other low information screens.
This is only a minor nuisance to me, but I'm really curious about what's going on...
The KMPlayer is a good media player. Contains some codecs that vlc doesnt. At least it did when I used it a few years back
Personally, I thought the K-Lite Mega Codec pack was better than the CCCP pack.
Thanks for this vid I really need this for a little explanation but can you do some indepth and more explanation on this subject really need to know a lot more info.
I swear we need to perfect cloning, because we need a Linus for every field of human endeavor. hahaha!
So when i play a bluray ripped .avi file, the resolution is quite good, but its kinda choppy and not synced with the audio, is it my player or is the video file just bad?
If you try to play the file on multiple players and get the same results it's probably not the player. Try VLC, MPC-HC, and another one like Potplayer.
It could be the vid file is bad or not synced properly. Or it might be your computer is not powerful enough to play the file. If the file uses a more cpu/graphic intensive codec, like H.264, that can cause choppy playback if your pc isn't up to snuff.
You can use a program like MediaInfo to find out what codecs the file contains.
19 .WAV song 28.4 gb,normal ?
i still got flac with total of 45gb(WAV+FLAC)
I just wanna know why there's a unicorn on the thumbnail. I guess I was clickbaited.
Thanks mini linus
Thanks for not having annotations!
Okay, I have a question. What are these Codex things you see on pirating sites??? I don't use them, or pirate at all for that matter, I'm just very curious as to what these "Codex" things do. Is it full software, or just some type of launcher thing. Plz reply. :D
good user, m.A.A.d internet just stay away from them.
Linus can you give us a rundown on how the different color switches on keyboards work?