As most of you know I've been collecting and digitising old Barnsley Fc VHS tapes and putting them on YouTube. I've not done much in the past three months as I've moved house and with that loads of work on it so I haven't done any videos. Hopefully I'll be getting my gear set up in the next month and cracking on again as some of you have gave me your videos to do. In the meantime have another look at look at my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ8sv45GDysq5teJBjfASnQ And if anybody has any footage (especially pre 1982) in any format please get in touch. Many thanks Shane.
General question about YouTube - why is the video quality so poor? Not just old VHS stuff, but recent recordings are really bad too.
Well for the VHS stuff the answer is that that VHS recorded standard definition TV signals at something around the 576 × ~310 resolution. We are used to watching in much higher resolutions these days. When you view on high res monitors and tablets we are used it looks pretty crap. Here's how the resolution has changed. VHS is somewhere above VCD and below DVD. Not sure what you mean about recent recordings?
Yes it reencodes videos to reduce bandwidth required for streaming Intially it will re-encode videos to H.264 and then after sometime it will reencode to VP9 which is a better quality stream so you will see an increase in quality a while after the video is initially available. Either of these are often not as good as what was uploaded.
