{"id":493,"date":"2007-11-23T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/youtubes-lucky-number\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:48:33","slug":"youtubes-lucky-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/youtubes-lucky-number\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s Lucky Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number is 240. In learning how <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> works its magic so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/\">MobyGames<\/a> may one day take user&#8217;s video submissions, <a href=\"http:\/\/trixter.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/22\/using-a-sharper-stick\/\">Trixter has been doing his own poking<\/a> at the video giant to determine what parameters the site uses to transcode user videos. What he learned: 240 lines, 240 kbps, 240 frames in a GOP. His best guess for why things are the way the are: &#8230;&#8221;it sure seems like the YouTube guys were taking blind stabs at encoding parameters (ie. &#8216;Hey, let\u2019s set everything to 240 and see what happens!&#8217;).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number is 240. In learning how YouTube works its magic so that MobyGames may one day take user&#8217;s video submissions, Trixter has been doing his own poking at the video giant to determine what parameters the site uses to transcode user videos. What he learned: 240 lines, 240 kbps, 240 frames in a GOP. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68,100],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia","tag-ffmpeg","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}