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Posted by felixstanek
felixstanek
447 Points

I think the video quality is poor to the point of being distracting. Is there any way to force better quality?

Currently watching "PHP for WordPress" using Chrome (WebM). Even though there's not much video action going on, the image is blocky. In Internet Explorer (MP4), the quality is a tiny bit better, but still quite bad.

I have no connectivity issues; I simply think the videos are either poorly encoded, or unnecessarily low bitrate versions are being served. Is there a way to force (even with the "risk" of buffering) higher-quality, or higher-resolution (e.g. 1080p)?

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 Points

The videos are (by default) HD. I've had no issues at all with any of the videos. In fact, when I download videos for future reference, I download the SD version, as I find that quality to be very high as well (but less than half the file size).

If you continue to have problems, maybe send Treehouse Support an email with all your tech specs and see if they have any suggestions as to how to make your experience more enjoyable.

felixstanek
felixstanek
447 Points
felixstanek
felixstanek
447 Points

I downloaded the trailer for this course (PHP for WordPress) from treehouse, and also from YouTube. The treehouse MP4 is 2 megabytes, whereas the YouTube one is 8 megabytes. Both are 720p but while the YouTube file is crisp and clean, the treehouse one is potato quality. I'm seriously having trouble sometimes distinguishing between colons and semicolons for example, or even letters. I have to pause or rewind to see exactly what's on the screen because of the "JPEG" artifacts.