Google's YouTube announced that it's adding two new features that will especially benefit people who enjoy watching gameplays and those who stream games live.
Most excitingly, the site is rolling out 60 frames per second video playback. The company has a handful of videos from Battlefield Hardline and Titanfall (embedded in the article) that show what 60fps playback at high definition on YouTube looks like.
As the another new feature, YouTube is also offering direct funding support for content creators — name-checking sites like Kickstarter and Patreon — and is allowing fans to 'contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any reason.'
Adding the icing on the cake, the website has also a number of other random little features planned, including viewer-contributed subtitles, a library of sound effects and new interactive info cards.
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Four months ago YouTube promised support for 60 frames per second videos. Back then, the feature was limited to some selected demonstration clips.
Now the capability to upload 60fps videos has been opened to everyone.
By searching YouTube, a lot of interesting high-FPS material can already be found. For now, some caveats apply though.
To watch the clips at 60fps you currently need to use Chrome (further browser support is on the way) and be sure to select 720p60 or 1080p60 from the settings menu of the video player. A fair amount of decoding power is also required, so you will need good hardware.
In addition, YouTube says that the content format will be only available on "motion-intense" videos, and the average cat video may not be detected as such.
Of course gaming will be the most obvious genre that can take advantage of the higher frame rate.
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