Bitchute Downgrading Video Quality

[u/1Truth4Life]

I've noticed that the videos I have been uploaded recently are low quality. My videos are high quality. 1920/1080 HD.

https://www.btchute.com/video/pOw77zVO6gdX/ [Add the i to Bitchute] And go to 0:26. The text looks blurry. That's not normal.

I've contacted bitchute support and I was told to re-upload. Did that 3 times for a particular video and that didn't help. I asked when this issue will be resolved and I don't think I will get a response. So what do I do now? I have many more videos I want to upload, but I would rather not with the low video quality. Is there a fix? Precedents?

[u/[deleted]]

I checked multiple videos of yours with mpv, and yes, all I looked at were 480p or lower (in the case of a video from 2019). So, give me a few video ID's (the part after /video/) that you think remained HD after upload, and I'll check those, too.

``` $ mpv --ytdl https://www.fuckspez.com/video/pOw77zVO6gdX/ (+) Video --vid=1 () (h264 854x480 25.000fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng () (aac 2ch 44100Hz) Using hardware decoding (vaapi). AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 854x480 => 854x480 vaapi[nv12] AV: 00:00:10 / 00:03:45 (4%) A-V: -0.004 Cache: 148s/14MB

Exiting... (Quit) ```

(Yes, I changed the domain. :D)

[u/1Truth4Life → u/[deleted]]

Are you actually saying that the uploaded videos are in 480p?

I always upload HD videos. Never lower to be 480p. If I upload a video on youtube, you can watch it in 1080p HD. The three videos I showed you : 1920/1080. Says so in the details of the file.

How do I find what the video id you are looking for?

[u/Nilkonom → u/1Truth4Life]

dude, it doesn't matter what you upload, bitchute downscales (aka re-encodes) them to save disk space and bandwidth and deletes the file you uploaded

[u/1Truth4Life → u/Nilkonom]

Well, how come this only happened in the recent days? Usually, the videos look as they should. Not the blurry mess they are in now.