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What do the numbers 240 and 360 mean when downloading video? How can I tell which video is more compressed?

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I have downloaded some computer science lectures from YouTube recently. There is usually more than one choice of file size and file format to download. I noticed that for the same video, the downloadable one with FLV 240 extension is larger than another one with MPEG4 360 extension. What does the n…

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what does the number (240 and 360) mean? It's the vertical resolution of the video. It means that the video is either 240 pixels or 360 pixels high. This is often also notated as "240p" or "360p". "p" stands for "progressive" and just means that eve…

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