Fix Uploaded Videos

EVERY minute of it, there are 35 hours duration of videos uploaded to video sharing site YouTube, with hits per day to reach 2 billion. Most of the video was already in the form of finished and disyut by professionals.

But, interestingly, the most popular videos and seen millions of times exactly the video amateur who disyut 'crude', but contain compelling content, funny, or have high news value. Not infrequently, the video is uploaded it resulted in coverage in conventional media.

There is Guitar, which shows people are playing electric guitar with very beautiful. Once the popularity of the video, to The New York Times finally wrote about the true identity of the guitarist, Lim Jeong-hyun, 23, from South Korea that are not visible on camera. Jeong-hyun deliberately concealed his identity, to record the video in his bedroom. Then there was Charlie Bit My Finger video which became the most viewed video on You-Tube. In November 2010 the video was to reach 245 million hits, the first ranked 50th most popular YouTube viral video of all time version of Time magazine. In fact, it is simple, disyut by amateurs as well.

"The most popular videos on YouTube disyut in mobile phones or video cameras. Most of the quality is too low or less good," said Jeremy Doig, director of Google Video Technology.

Lately, the most popular videos are a matter of demonstrators in Libya. "Emotionally, extraordinary evocative, but often the picture does not focus and shake so that reduce the enjoyment of watching," he said. This is why the company decided to acquire YouTube Irish Green Parrot Pictures.

The company has the technology to improve video quality. Among other things, sharpen the image quality, reduce noise, render to a higher quality, plus reduce image shake.

All of it is done when users upload videos to YouTube. According to Doig, from Green Parrots technology is also used by movie studios output giants such as Lords of the Rings, X-Men, and Spider-Man.

"They (Green Parrots) have the ability to make video look better, but still use the smaller and faster bandwithyang played," said Doig.

Green Parrots are a new company formed by Anil Kokaram, professor of engineering at Trinity College, Dublin. What is the value of this acquisition is not made ​​public.

YouTube is now a subsidiary of Google after the acquisition in October 2006 amounting to USD1, 65 billion or about Rp14, 4 trillion. Since then, the more definite step YouTube, becoming the largest video sharing sites in the world.