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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/iVXsz on 2024-10-25 03:14:28+00:00.

It has happened… for a while now, a lot of older videos have had their VP9 streams removed and only have AVC streams. I randomly discoverd this while watching some older videos and wondering why the quality was extra bad, I went back to my archive, and guess what? the video looked a lot better, and then I found out vp9 got neutered on all older videos.

An approximate date is July 20th, by a report of a user on YT-DLP’s Discord a day after it happened, yet it went under the rader and no one seems to have talked about this (afaik).

The issue is that the AVC streams are mostly garbage compared to the VP9 streams: it’s so bad even tho both are about the same bitrate. I wish I knew about this sooner, out of all things I really didn’t expect this from Youtube, seems pretty weird. I get that videos like these don’t get much traffic but the channel has million of subs and people watch his older videos regularly, especially since he isn’t as active nowadays.

1080p60 is affected as well, only av1 and avc remain. 1440p is not affected… yet.