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Antony
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03 Jun, 2007 1:05 am YouTube coming to Apple TV [sdp=85048]  


Apple announced on 30th May 2007 that the internet's most popular video show site, YouTube, will be able to connect to users' living room with Apple TV. Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV. Using Apple TV’s elegant interface and simple Apple Remote, viewers can easily browse, find and watch free videos from YouTube in the comfort of their living room.

For more detail, please refer to YouTube Coming to Apple TV (Apple Press Release)

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04 Jun, 2007 3:25 am [sdp=85070]  
To the dismay of our Microsoft/Windows supporters, YouTube will use industry standard H.264 as encoded format.

iLounge talked to Apple Vice President of Worldwide Mac Hardware Marketing David Moody,
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According to Moody, the YouTube update will take place in stages, beginning with the free software update for Apple TV owners in mid-June. At launch, “thousands of videos designed for Apple TV” will be available, with additional thousands added weekly until the entire YouTube library becomes accessible to Apple TV users this fall. When asked what “designed for Apple TV” meant, Moody said that YouTube will soon be encoding videos in the H.264 streaming-efficient compression format preferred by Apple TV, and that all new videos submitted to YouTube as of the mid-June launch of the AppleTV update will be playable by the device. From then until fall, YouTube will be encoding its entire back-catalog in H.264 format, adding videos in chunks until everything is accessible to Apple TV users. Direct links and the on-screen keyboard-based search engine mentioned in our previous update will bring you to current and old videos alike.


QuickTime 7 Player (free) is the first major media player that plays H.264 encoded videos directly without any additional tweaks.

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04 Jun, 2007 11:49 am [sdp=85077]  
Wouldn't it have been more effective (and would've cost YouTube eons less processor time) to, say, include a Flash Video decoder/demuxer in the Apple TV?

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05 Jun, 2007 8:43 am [sdp=85109]  
Don_HH2K wrote:
Wouldn't it have been more effective (and would've cost YouTube eons less processor time) to, say, include a Flash Video decoder/demuxer in the Apple TV?
I thought the extremist would go for anything that provides the best (least loss in quailty) and everything the latest.

Also, are you suggesting watching the low-quality(*) Flash video on a huge high-resolution television?

(*) certainly, the current Flash video resolution/quality is only suitable for online streaming.

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05 Jun, 2007 11:38 am [sdp=85122]  
Antony wrote:
Don_HH2K wrote:
Wouldn't it have been more effective (and would've cost YouTube eons less processor time) to, say, include a Flash Video decoder/demuxer in the Apple TV?
I thought the extremist would go for anything that provides the best (least loss in quailty) and everything the latest.


And I thought you were the one advocating Sorenson's codecs, like those used in some Flash Video formats, over MPEG-4.

Antony wrote:
Also, are you suggesting watching the low-quality(*) Flash video on a huge high-resolution television?


They say they're re-encoding their current videos in H.264. All of their current videos are 320x240, so there will be no effective change in the resolution. Furthermore, since they're recompressing lossy-compressed videos with another lossy codec, the video quality has the potential to be even worse.

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