Youtube HD videos on S3?

[Raj]

Does the Series 3 TiVo or HD support YouTube 720p content?

Sorry I searched because I figured someone would ask, but I didn't see any answer to my question. Apologies if it was asked already.

[JoeTaxpayer]

Crazy question - why not just find a 720 video and see? You have an HD TiVo, right?

[jeepguy_1980]

I saved a video that was available in HD to my favorites and then opened it on my S3. It was not in HD, nor could I find an option to view it in HD.

[moyekj]

As far as decoding H.264 HD video Tivo has no problems with that so there is no technical reason why it shouldn't be possible (assuming the 720p stuff from YouTube is H.264). To be honest I used YouTube a little when Tivo/YouTube solution 1st launched but never use it anymore so no idea what's going on there. It did open up the door for general purpose H.264 streaming (and pushing) to series 3 Tivos which is something I find very useful.

[dvohwinkel]

Can you give details or links on "Opening the door for general purpose H.264 streaming (and pushing) to series 3 Tivos which is something I find very useful."

Thanks

-Dave

As far as decoding H.264 HD video Tivo has no problems with that so there is no technical reason why it shouldn't be possible (assuming the 720p stuff from YouTube is H.264). To be honest I used YouTube a little when Tivo/YouTube solution 1st launched but never use it anymore so no idea what's going on there. It did open up the door for general purpose H.264 streaming (and pushing) to series 3 Tivos which is something I find very useful.

[moyekj]

Can you give details or links on "Opening the door for general purpose H.264 streaming (and pushing) to series 3 Tivos which is something I find very useful."
For mp4 videos on your computer with H.264 video and AC3 or AAC audio:

streambaby (http://code.google.com/p/streambaby/) can stream them natively (i.e. no transcoding to mpeg2 needed) to series 3 Tivos.

pyTivo (http://pytivo.armooo.net/), specifically wmcbrine's branch of pyTivo (http://repo.or.cz/w/pyTivo/wmcbrine.git) can push them natively to series 3 Tivos. (NOTE: Only push to Tivo mode can do that, not pull from Tivo mode)

[wmcbrine]

Also, HME/VLC (see sig).

[count_on_mike]

I saved a video that was available in HD to my favorites and then opened it on my S3. It was not in HD, nor could I find an option to view it in HD.

Let me add to what jeepguy_1980 said. I have a TiVo HD XL. I added a few HD YouTube videos to my youtube Favorites. I can see them from my computer. They are missing when I view my Favorites thru the TiVo. Isn't not that the YouTube content doesn't play on TiVo, the content doesn't even show up.

Mike

[Raj]

Crazy question - why not just find a 720 video and see? You have an HD TiVo, right?

I have a Series 3.

I did this:

I saved a video that was available in HD to my favorites and then opened it on my S3. It was not in HD, nor could I find an option to view it in HD.

So I was wondering if there was anything special I had to do.

[Worf]

As far as decoding H.264 HD video Tivo has no problems with that so there is no technical reason why it shouldn't be possible (assuming the 720p stuff from YouTube is H.264).

Just FYI, the high-def YouTube videos are 720p (1280x720) h.264 encoded videos in a standard mp4 container. The high-quality videos are either Flash or h.264 encoded, from what I've seen.

(I know because I've downloaded several high-def videos... and the strange thing is, the tiny window YouTube gives you on the web page is 2/3rds or smaller than the real resolution of the video. You have to hack it to download the real 720p video so you can watch it in real high-def).

[MeStinkBAD]

YouTube has been compressing video into H.264 for sometime I would assume. Though HD and flash H.264 support wasn't added till version 10, it's still backward compatible w/ previous flash versions (which I believe use a Sorenson compression algorithm though I'm not really certain). And they still encode an independent H.264 video for embedded devices such as the AppleTV, TiVo, iPhone OS 2.2.1, etc.

I'm saying this with some certainty...