Youtube HD vs Facebook HD: You Be The Judge

9 Dec 2008

Here are embeds of the same source video on Facebook and Youtube. You be the judge on which you prefer:

I’ve noticed the Youtube embed looks better in full screen than the Facebook embed. It looks like the Facebook embed is not even HD! Does Facebook allow HD embeds? It sure doesn’t look like it. If you click through to the original Facebook video and make it full screen, you’ll see it looks a lot better than the embed. Are our HD videos truly free from the walled garden of Facebook? I don’t know. Granted, the Youtube HD embed requires a hack to the embed string to watch in HD, it still should be noted that there isn’t a way to embed the Facebook HD at all. If there is, please let me know in the comments.

As it stands, the Youtube solution is more attractive to me at the moment since I want the HD experience outside of the Youtube site. Plus, the Youtube community destroys the Facebook video community. I’m not sure why Youtube or Facebook won’t make the HD embed option a main feature. If DailyMotion can do it, why can’t they?

Post written by Bwana

Tags: 720p, comparison, facebook, hd, High Definition, video, youtude

http://toddrecommends.tv/ Todd K. Edwards

I would go with Youtube, because on the post you have the Facebook on top and Youtube on bottom and what I noticed is that the Youtube looks clear. The Facebook one look really cloudy and not as clear from the Youtube sample.

Winner in my book is Youtube!
http://toddrecommends.tv Todd K. Edwards

I would go with Youtube, because on the post you have the Facebook on top and Youtube on bottom and what I noticed is that the Youtube looks clear. The Facebook one look really cloudy and not as clear from the Youtube sample.

Winner in my book is Youtube!
http://cybersurge.org/ Michael

In terms of straight up quality YouTube wins. But, if you want to talk about overall it is split for me, the FaceBook player looks better in my opinion but the YouTube one is easily embeddable. I also found the YouTube version to buffer a lot more than the Facebook version (which didn’t buffer at all during playback, only at the beginning).
http://cybersurge.org Michael

In terms of straight up quality YouTube wins. But, if you want to talk about overall it is split for me, the FaceBook player looks better in my opinion but the YouTube one is easily embeddable. I also found the YouTube version to buffer a lot more than the Facebook version (which didn’t buffer at all during playback, only at the beginning).
FishTWiT

Youtube is my preference. The Facebook feed never buffered once while the Youtube feed had to buffer many times.
FishTWiT

Youtube is my preference. The Facebook feed never buffered once while the Youtube feed had to buffer many times.
http://www.bwana.org/2008/12/09/youtube-hd-vs-facebook-hd-you-be-the-judge/ Wynn

How do you switch the video to your Desktop without the video production switcher or manual editing. Do you have a screen capture SW or other apps to achieve this?

Thank You Kindly,

Wynn
714.881.0911
http://www.bwana.org/2008/12/09/youtube-hd-vs-facebook-hd-you-be-the-judge/ Wynn

How do you switch the video to your Desktop without the video production switcher or manual editing. Do you have a screen capture SW or other apps to achieve this?

Thank You Kindly,

Wynn
714.881.0911
chantal

FACEBOOK WINS simply because I can actually watch the whole video without interruptions. Youtube is a disaster – the buffering and stop/go motion turns a 3 minute video into a 10 minute nightmare!!
chantal

FACEBOOK WINS simply because I can actually watch the whole video without interruptions. Youtube is a disaster – the buffering and stop/go motion turns a 3 minute video into a 10 minute nightmare!!
Marce

Could the source file also play a role in the quality? And for the record, what type of source file did you use?
Marce

Could the source file also play a role in the quality? And for the record, what type of source file did you use?
http://www.bwana.org/ Bwana

I used a 720p source video from my Canon Powershot TX1. Both videos were encoded from the same source file.
http://www.bwana.org Bwana

I used a 720p source video from my Canon Powershot TX1. Both videos were encoded from the same source file.