Just watched this one. Super stuff! Wonderfully atmospheric winter dawn scenes. I also love the way the whole feel of it changes as soon as you get past Chinley North Junction - all of a sudden, bang, now it's PROPER MIDLAND!
Cheers Don, keep up the good work!
Isn't that what youtube making people do this "premiere" guff is all about? As far as I can make out this means the video is indeed present and complete on youtube, and shows up in playlists and such, for some weeks beforehand, but youtube has blocked it for the time being - so essentially the same as a "private" video except that you do get screenshots. I thought they were forcing this delay on people precisely in order to give them time to complete the processing, so that by the time they let people watch it the quality would already have reached its final level. At any rate it seemed to start happening at about the same time as people stopped complaining that the initial quality wasn't up to scratch.
(Note: Absolutely
nothing on the actual youtube website works at all in any way whatsoever, and I interact with it
entirely through command-line scripts and utilities. So I have no idea what youtube's public excuse for it is; I'm just going on what I can observe of the results.)
But if this isn't functioning any more, then I am confused! The TRU video was fine for me, and so was this latest one. I might (if I remember) try downloading this one again in a few days to see if anything odd is happening.
As a point of reference, in case the encoding is a relevant factor, I'm retrieving the versions that use the vp9 codec in webm container, format 248+251 as youtube-dl calls it. The vp9 algorithm seems better suited to the particular characteristics of a cab ride video than mp4 is, and is better for not introducing annoying artefacts as well as giving significantly smaller files.