“New videos will be less pixilated,” says Twitter | Tic Tech Toe – MAG THE WEEKLY

Social media news 02 Oct – 08 Oct, 2021 Mag The Weekly Tic Tech Toe Twitter’s poor video quality has been a long-running frustration for users on the platform, but the company recently shared some potentially promising news: videos uploaded to the service will now “appear less pixilated for a better watching experience,” Twitter said in a tweet from its support account. Twitter removed a pre-processing step in its video pipeline when you upload. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong uploaded a video intended to put the supposed improvements to the test. While it might appear better – Twitter told that the changes aren’t yet supported in Twitter Media Studio, which is what Wong used to upload the video. If you want to see a video that Twitter says does use the improved video quality, check out the video in this reply to Wong. The second video does seem somewhat improved, but it’s hard to tell exactly by how much with the mostly-black background. Both videos are clearly not as crisp as a high-quality video that you might watch on YouTube or Twitch, though. And this upgrade only applies to newly-uploaded videos, so older videos won’t see the improvements. Want to…
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