This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

    • bitwolfEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      That’s YouTube’s processed video not the original.

        • bitwolfEnglish
          0•9 months ago

          That 1:1 conversion through the same codec is very likely lossy. However that’s not a straight file copy which is what you originally said causes degradation.

            • bitwolfEnglish
              1•9 months ago

              I jumped in to point out the flaw in the YouTube experiment you’re referring to.

                • bitwolfEnglish
                  1•9 months ago

                  Imo, an easy way to remove YouTube’s postprocessing from the equation would be to copy a video file to and from a nas or other computer several times and compare it with the untouched file.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•10 months ago

          No, this is because YouTube compresses every file before distributing it. This happens even when downloading on the creator side.