JohnCharlie2012
commented
3 weeks ago Oh this is a very interesting discovery because BlueSky doesn't specify these limitations on their website. Out of curiosity, what did you use to identify the metadata for these videos? I'd like to utilize that and examine it more with my videos.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The quality of videos on Bluesky compared to other platforms like Twitter or Mastodon could be better. I've uploaded the same gameplay clip to Bluesky and Twitter and put them side by side and you can see the clear difference:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d49d3efc-1e5d-41d4-8436-1f2cee999925
Source Video:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4ba6995-8b0c-4bbb-8ef1-6609a90d61a0
Digging into the metadata of the videos reveals that the bitrate is fairly similar, but the Bluesky video is restricted to 30 FPS:
Twitter
Bluesky
Mastodon
Source
Describe the solution you'd like
A simple solution to this degraded quality would be to allow 60 FPS videos on Bluesky and perhaps a slightly higher bitrate, which would clearly cost storage space.
Mastodon here is basically identical to the source video as they take the approach of simply having a hard cut off of 99 MB.
Twitter: 9.9 MB Bluesky: 6.7 MB Mastodon: 67 MB Source: 67 MB
Describe alternatives you've considered
Aside from better encoding formats (maybe VP9 or AV1), little can be done to improve the quality of videos without bumping up the bitrate and/or frame rate.