*promote I always wondered about this.

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Interesting but, this video would be MUCH better if the camera were just a few more inches closer to that guy's face.

This host's voice sounds eerily like Ewan McGregor's.

*geek *science

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Great to have a peek into some of their inner-workings.

I've always understood this part, what doesn't make sense is the resolution jumps are inconsistent and they don't make an option to set which "HD" or "SD" version I want. Most videos seem to start at 360 and jump to 480 once I go full screen. This is fine, though I would rather it start at 480 when available. Then sometimes it jumps to 720, which is less fine on my crappy DSL, but on occasion it hums along so it is nice to watch it there when it is streaming okay. It would be nice if instead of an "always play in SD" option, but to set which resolution we want as a default for both normal and full screen viewing, then let me manually change it if I decide I have the bandwidth to go more.... that and some videos go back to playing a commercial when when you drop out of full screen which is aggravating and I think it relates to the resolution changes...

Ha! I had the whole question backwards. I theorized that certain popular YouTube channels were allowed to start off with 300+ views until they actually got 300+ views so that it would never look like they'd had no views. I thought it was kinda transparent that it was always a number from 301 to 310 or so. Now I know.

Also, what's the little yellow line that appears on the bar when you hit play?

I really never noticed that stuck number, 301. Heh.

Brady is awesome. He's going to find fame making all these vid series.

I thought the explanation of why it might be more than 301 was somewhat lacking. They start to explain it, discussing local and central servers, but then just fall back to "they all came in at the same time."

>> ^Ryjkyj:

Also, what's the little yellow line that appears on the bar when you hit play?


Thats the ~10 sec marker, it indicates when an embedded advert will appear on videos that are using embedded advertising.

>> ^charliem:

>> ^Ryjkyj:
Also, what's the little yellow line that appears on the bar when you hit play?

Thats the ~10 sec marker, it indicates when an embedded advert will appear on videos that are using embedded advertising.


Also, a random number generator is activated within the range of 1 to 438 Billion. If the number generator ever lands on 42 your computer will instantly explode.

10 minutes to find out why youtube video votes stop at 301? Can anyone summarise?

>> ^dannym3141:

10 minutes to find out why youtube video votes stop at 301? Can anyone summarise?


300 is the pre-programmed view count that is NOT validated as being true - Google sees view counts as a currency which is important enough to deserve checks to stop view-count manipulation. Low views don't bother them.

Why is it 300? No one knows, someone decided on that figure.

The code checks like this

If viewcount <= 300 then add 1
So with each view the count is incremented. When it hits 300 it goes to 301 of course and thereafter it stops.

It can go to 302 or 310 or similar because of views of cached copies hitting at the same time. Those views get counted and thus it's possible to exceed 301. That viewcount is also frozen.

After Google validates the views the correct figure is updated later on.

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Pity they don't apply the validation retroactively. Might be funny to see a video stuck at 301 and then have it drop back to 76.