What Does Viewport Mean in Stats for Nerds on YouTube

What Does Viewport Mean in Stats for Nerds on YouTube

In this video I'm showing what the Viewport option does in the YouTube Stats for Nerds function in the YouTube video player in the Google Chrome web browser.

As you can see in the video the Viewport indicator is showing the physical part of the screen area that the video stream is playing in.

In the video I'm playing my YouTube video at 1920x1080, Viewport is saying 1280x720 and Current is saying 1920x1080. Current is the indicator for the YouTube video stream resolution that you are currently watching. What this means is that Viewport is indicating that the video is playing in the YouTube player in a 1280x720 part of the screen but the content playing inside the YouTube video player is the 1920x1080 stream as is indicated by Current.

When I change the size of my Chrome web browser this will also re-scale the size of the YouTube video player inside the Chrome web browser. When the YouTube player is re-scaled and is made smaller, showing a physically smaller video in the rescaled smaller YouTube video player. The Viewport setting shows even smaller resolutions as it is reflecting the new smaller physical size of the video in proportion to the resolution of the monitor resolution setting that I'm using, which is 1920x1080.

As I increase the size of my Chrome web browser and therefore the size of the playback area on the screen that the YouTube video player is using. The Viewport setting is increasing as I do so.
At various points during changing and increasing the size of the Chrome web browser and the YouTube video player. The Viewport is indicating video resolutions such as 427x240 640x360 675x380 1046x588 while Current is still indicating the actual stream resolution that has been selected, being 1920x1080. Basically, we're looking at various playback resolutions that all essentially of the 16:9 aspect ratio, while changing the size of the Chrome browser.

So after all of that , what does Viewport do? It simply indicates the effective resolution or proportion of your screen that's being used by the YouTube player to play the video and is independent of the stream resolution you have chosen and is not the same thing as the video resolution.

I suspect that some of this may be approximations and that the accuracy to the info in the Viewport setting and in Stats for Nerds in general, may well change slightly or may even be inaccurate or wrong in certain instances due to the vast differences in all the computer and playback systems, web browsers etc. that YouTube will be played on.

If you've wondered what is Stats for Nerds, I'll cover more about this in the future.

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