Why would there be interlaced video in 2025? Fuck do they still have a tube tv?
Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh my… y’all need to chill.
Download yt-dlp and run this command, to get CNN’s ‘direct’ 245MB stream instead of AP’s (or YouTube’s) tiny re-encodes:
yt-dlp -f direct https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/us/video/trump-oval-office-statement-white-house-charlie-kirk-death-digvid
It’s interlaced.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
The re-encodes are clearly de-interlaced (poorly) which is why motion looks so weird. It’s also choppy and blocky, hallmarks of poor encoding, even in a very high bitrate stream.
Y’all (and apparently the rest of the internet) are obsessing over literally decades-old video encoding/broadcasting issues and oldschool video filters to fix them that have nothing to with AI.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The video encoding crowd was screaming that that 10 years ago, heh.
…Shrug. I guess people are still getting ‘traditional’ cable broadcasts. Turn on YouTube TV, and you can see they still use those ancient broadcast codecs (even though its all streamed), probably because they have to just comply with the system.
mcv@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m reminded of how the high-resolution footage of Space-X’s landing [attempts] from a few years ago stoked massive waves of paranoia and conspiracy across the internet because nobody had ever seen such modern footage of a spacecraft in motion and most people who saw it thought it was fake.
People really want to feel like they’ve figured something special out, in a world where media and information is constantly changing and advancing.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed.
Though I wouldn’t disparage investigation. I’d perhaps rephrase that: “I don’t have much experience with this topic,” as a sentiment, seems to have disappeared. The Trump admin is kind of a perfect embodiment of that.
Snazz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
New conspiracy: The government planned this decades ago and had the video ready in advance.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Bold to assume that governments are capable of long term plans.