Quill Journal

How AV1 Encoding Quality Transforms 4K HDR Gameplay on YouTube

When I sat down to watch a 4K HDR gameplay video of The Last of Us Part II Remastered completed on Grounded difficulty with no damage and all collectibles collected, I expected something special. What I didn't expect was the nagging feeling that I was missing half the picture. The video was sharp, sure, but the shadows in the abandoned supermarket looked blocky, and the neon signs in the Seattle night scene had this faint, shimmering noise around their edges. That was the mo