Topic: Recent video resolution requirement

Posted under General

Wanted to mention and possibly request a rollback on a recent decision about the minimum resolution now required for video posts. I never saw a post or update about this, but when I recently tried to upload an animation, I was given an error that it was not a minimum of 768 on height. While I fully understand such a requirement for static images given how far along image gen programs has come and been optimized, I feel like this change for videos is a bit early given the current state of video gen programs. Some paid online sites generate above this resolution, but with their NSFW restrictions, many are locally generating to not deal with it (as well as not having to pay for tokens). The problem is, local vid generating programs aren't quite there yet for most hardware to gen above 480p & 720p. I myself am capped at 480p, and even if I had the beefy hardware for 720p, it still would not be accepted by this new requirement. This forces users to have to upscale their video, which not always turns out well since you're having to scale a 480p video nearly double, so a lot of artifacting gets introduced and sacrifices the overall quality instead of having it as its native resolution. I believe poor upscaling of a small source image isn't accepted for this very reason, so it will likely apply for videos as well and cause some content to be unapproved for not meeting that guideline.

But yes, just wanted to voice my opinion on it and possibly nudge this change to a future date when video tech has caught up a little more.

Hardware requirements for generating a video are two orders of magnitude (yes, that's 100) higher than for pictures, and yes, the few decents open video models are recommending resolutions such as 16:9 720p at max, so it seems a public discussion about the >768 min size enforcement would be of great interest for everybody. Video generation is a truly interesting, very cutting-edge domain, and it shouldn't be suffocated under quality requirements which are realistic for pictures, but much less reachable for videos

Will talk with the dev and see if we can't get this hard limit on the site reversed until further notice.

The original intent was to avoid images smaller than the minimum res to be uploaded to save staff time but it turned into an oopsie when we saw it also affected video files :)

jelloponies said:
Will talk with the dev and see if we can't get this hard limit on the site reversed until further notice.

The original intent was to avoid images smaller than the minimum res to be uploaded to save staff time but it turned into an oopsie when we saw it also affected video files :)

That's great news! Thanks for this information