{"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. 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