Agree it would be cool to be "untouched" by the compression algorithm, but that's nearly impossible with YouTube. YouTube encodes down to several different versions of a video and on top of that, several different codecs to support different devices with different built-in video hardware decoders.
For example, when I upload a 4K vid and then watch the 4K stream on my Mac vs my PC, I get different video files solely based on the browser settings that can tell what OS I'm running.
Handling this compression protection for so many different codecs is likely not feasible.
For example, when I upload a 4K vid and then watch the 4K stream on my Mac vs my PC, I get different video files solely based on the browser settings that can tell what OS I'm running.
Handling this compression protection for so many different codecs is likely not feasible.