YouTube has quietly become an option to its video player added, if available, 4k resolutions for video clips to choose from. Up until now, the user mostly rely on descriptions such as ‘4k’ or ‘uhd’ in the title or description of a clip.
It’s been since mid-2010 possible to capture videos in 4k resolution to upload to YouTube. To get the higher resolutions to make it clear to the viewer was the uploader themselves in the title or description to indicate that it is a uhd-clip; in the checkbox for resolutions in the video player was above the hd 1080p option only to the resolution of ‘original’ is shown.
The British site Hdtvtest reports that YouTube is now in the drop down option 2160p displays, a reference to 4k video, with resolutions of 4096×2160 or 3840×2160 pixels. This is the identity and the combo of uhd videos considerably on the videoportal of Google. It is also noteworthy that YouTube is also a ‘tussenresolutie has received from 1440p.
Last month made Google even announced it on YouTube and its own VP9 codec will use for displaying uhd video content. Thanks to YouTube, the hevc codec is provisionally left.
