On February 11 2012 08:58 motbob wrote: Are we watching the same VODs?
I agree, I don't know what anyone in this thread is talking about. The HQ VODS look great on my end, not sure what the meaning behind others issues is.
You can't be serious.
There, Husky on a single computer is capturing 720p and look at the quality? Switch to 720p mode - look at the text, look at the units, same ultimate codec (Flash Video) in the long run, vastly vastly better quality.
i think they could increase the bitrate of their HQ stream and vods a bit. i'm sure it will happen sooner or later. GOM has been pretty good with making improvements to their vods/streams. the ingame footage is pretty good, but you really notice the compression artifacting in the shots of the studio with all the different lights and colours. when i had a shitty connection a while back, i could only keep up with buffering vods if there wasn't studio shots.
It is pretty bad. I have to change my video settings just to sharpen it up. I'm use to it because GSL is the only reason I watch sc2 matches so I've become accustomed to the quality. However, I have seen other streams that are much better. Considering the production Gom puts into it's stream, I don't know why it can't be higher.
On February 11 2012 09:03 Cabinet Sanchez wrote: http://i.imgur.com/A0U9Y.jpg Look at the minerals, they are a blurry mess. The supply / income numbers - while readable (unlike LQ) are quite blurry - the top left units counter, the probes are just a gold mass of pixels.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but HQ looks way better than that for me. Maybe it's something on your end?
On February 11 2012 09:03 Cabinet Sanchez wrote: http://i.imgur.com/A0U9Y.jpg Look at the minerals, they are a blurry mess. The supply / income numbers - while readable (unlike LQ) are quite blurry - the top left units counter, the probes are just a gold mass of pixels.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but HQ looks way better than that for me. Maybe it's something on your end?
Mine always looked like that and I've pretty mutch watched every season. Fine for me since I don't watch fullscreen anyways.
uh yeah they also look really good for me, definitely MUCH better than that pic. i don't really notice a difference between GSL vods and MLG vods tbh. except the games, production, casting and everything else is better in GSL.
On February 11 2012 09:03 Cabinet Sanchez wrote: http://i.imgur.com/A0U9Y.jpg Look at the minerals, they are a blurry mess. The supply / income numbers - while readable (unlike LQ) are quite blurry - the top left units counter, the probes are just a gold mass of pixels.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but HQ looks way better than that for me. Maybe it's something on your end?
I think it's unlikely that they litterally encode a different version just for other countries. There's 2 options, high and low. Here is what a LQ snap looks like http://i.imgur.com/zIW0I.jpg
What we see here is a videophile having a shit fit, I've seen this before all we need to do, is to show super high resolution images and it will calm it,
I can't really tell, but I wonder if the computers of the GSL cameraman are not as good as other tourneys such that graphical settings are turned down?
Keep in mind GOM likely has a number of analogue conversions or other sources of degradation in their pipeline since they are a broadcast studio and have to capture live camera footage and do a lot of video mixing etc. You can't really compare that to someone screen capturing at full color space RGB24 and directly encoding to x264. The analogue path likely has low color space, possible interlacing issues, limited HD/SD resolution, etc.
On February 11 2012 09:17 Blade Fox wrote: Maybe the op has a codec issue or his gom player settings are off?
Multiple computers, I've been watching since GSL#1 - I've re-installed Windows since then. This is on my laptop and desktop. Considering this is what husky 720p looks like on the same computer? Same flash player?
Husky 720p flash youtube http://i.imgur.com/fSL1S.jpg Look how crisp the text is? Note the defined lines on the protoss buildings.
EDIT: Watching the GOM stream compared to the Husky stream, they are definitely using vastly different codecs, GOM has very very smooth unit movement, whereas huskys stream blurs significantly more when units move but you only notice at very fast moment and personally I find it less likely to notice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5-YcDzmE4-c#t=681s
On February 11 2012 09:03 Cabinet Sanchez wrote: http://i.imgur.com/A0U9Y.jpg Look at the minerals, they are a blurry mess. The supply / income numbers - while readable (unlike LQ) are quite blurry - the top left units counter, the probes are just a gold mass of pixels.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but HQ looks way better than that for me. Maybe it's something on your end?
I think it's unlikely that they litterally encode a different version just for other countries. There's 2 options, high and low. Here is what a LQ snap looks like http://i.imgur.com/zIW0I.jpg
Yup. GOM HD is more like medium definition. It's pretty shameful. I don't mind when the camera shows the casters or the players, but for the games at least it should be as clear as other tournaments.
On February 11 2012 09:03 Cabinet Sanchez wrote: http://i.imgur.com/A0U9Y.jpg Look at the minerals, they are a blurry mess. The supply / income numbers - while readable (unlike LQ) are quite blurry - the top left units counter, the probes are just a gold mass of pixels.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but HQ looks way better than that for me. Maybe it's something on your end?
I think it's unlikely that they litterally encode a different version just for other countries. There's 2 options, high and low. Here is what a LQ snap looks like http://i.imgur.com/zIW0I.jpg
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