I wonder why they would kill old videos instead of just removing those 10-hour plus loops of the same song over and over again that nobody watches. You’d think those giant loop videos would be taking up far more space.
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MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 9 months agoi am more worried about the old videos wipe thats coming soon
Sooo many peoples uploaded memories and documentaries are going to becone lost forever
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
pokemaster787@ani.social 9 months ago
You’d think those giant loop videos would be taking up far more space
Someone above posted an article saying they aren’t actually. But you’d be surprised at how little space those 10 hour videos can actually take. They’re highly compressible since they’re just the same still image and the same audio on repeat. A good compression algorithm (which Google certainly is using) would basically compress it into one instance of the song and how many times to repeat it (more complex than that, but that’s the idea)
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Sometimes they are, if it’s just audio and a static image. Some of them definitely are not that though. The ones with visualizers or full music videos or the like are not nearly as compressible.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 months ago
10-hour plus loops of the same song over and over again that nobody watches.
I tend to fall asleep to one of those videos of being on the beach with ocean sounds, so /shrug.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
So to combat use cases like this, why not just add a repeat option? There would be no break if it cached the beginning again.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So to combat use cases like this, why not just add a repeat option? There would be no break if it cached the beginning again.
The first two minutes are an ad, and having a loud voice talking to you all of a sudden in your bedroom while you are asleep tends to wake you up.
Also just download the audio you want and loop it yourself. It would take roughly 2 minutes and use way less bandwidth.
With compression techniques being as they are today, I truly don’t even worry about the bandwidth.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They aren’t wiping videos.
monkE@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Wait what?
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Who’s going to wipe the old videos?
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Google’s going to delete inactive google accounts. So if you see a channel whose last upload was six years ago, there’s a good chance it’s about to be deleted
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks. I looked it up and read that Google decided according to the latest news they’re not deleting YouTube accounts with video uploads. We’ll see.
Sacha@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh I suppose my diseased father’s small channel with a few of his live music performances will be deleted. Lovely.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
By the look of it they won’t be but I would make an offline copy just to be safe. Maybe re-upload it on a newer account/website.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Grab those vids.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Save it bro to your cloud
manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Goddamnit, I didn’t even think about this when I saw they were doing the mass delete. Here’s to hoping that they’ll at least keep the videos up. Waaaay too much stuff on YT to lose it all. Anyone know if archive.org is backing them up?
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anyone know if archive.org is backing them up?
At this point you got to imagine that archives hardware infrastructure has to be as big or bigger than Google’s.
zovits@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait, what?