New videos will be less pixelated, according to Twitter

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Twitter users have long complained about the platform's poor video quality, but the company announced some potentially good news on Friday: films uploaded to the service will now "look less pixelated for a better watching experience," according to a tweet from Twitter's support account.

According to The Verge, Twitter has removed a pre-processing step from its video pipeline when you post. The business explained after we published this story that the omitted phase divided videos into smaller pieces for ingestion, which might decrease quality due to the additional processing.

Jane Manchun Wong, an app researcher, created a video to put the ostensible improvements to the test. (Because the sound on this video is a little loud, you might want to turn it down before watching it.)

While it may look to be better — and it certainly did in my opinion — Twitter informed us after we initially published this that the improvements announced on Friday aren't currently enabled in Twitter Media Studio, which Wong used to submit the video.

Check out the video in this response to Wong if you want to see a video that Twitter claims use enhanced video quality (which, I should warn you, is also loud). 


This second video appears to be slightly better, but with the mostly black background, it's difficult to say by how much. Both films, however, are plainly not as sharp as a high-quality video found on YouTube or Twitch. This update is just for freshly uploaded videos; older videos will not benefit from it.

However, it's encouraging to see Twitter making an attempt to improve its video experience. And the improvements may go beyond video quality since Wong's research earlier this week revealed that Twitter is working on video playback speed choices.


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