PickVidsBest Audio & video engineering Videos
The 76 Audio & video engineering videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 14 intermediate, 52 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Techmoan, Benn Jordan.
D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
Monty Montgomery of Xiph.org gives real-time demonstrations of sampling, quantization, bit depth and dither using real audio equipment, including both digital analysis tools and vintage analog bench gear.
The world's worst video card?
Ben Eater explains how VGA signals work and builds a breadboard circuit that produces correct sync timing so a monitor recognizes the signal.
Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts
Floyd Toole's CIRMMT distinguished lecture on the science of sound reproduction, drawing on decades of blind listening research.
MiniDisc - An Appreciation
Techmoan's 45-minute retrospective on Sony's MiniDisc, covering the first and last machines, ATRAC, MD-LP, Net-MD and HiMD.
Cassettes - better than you don't remember
Techmoan's beginner introduction to the compact cassette, testing metal tapes and Dolby S noise reduction on a Sony TC-S1 deck.
Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?
Matt Parker explains the history behind NTSC television running at 29.97 frames per second rather than 30, tracing it to the backward-compatible addition of color.
E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science explains how electrophoretic e-paper displays work and how he modified the driver firmware and waveform lookup tables of a 4.2-inch panel to reach roughly 3Hz partial refresh.
Atari's Quadrascan Explained
Retro Game Mechanics Explained dissects how Atari's Quadrascan vector displays and vector generator hardware drew games like Asteroids and Tempest.
CD / Color
Captain Disillusion's comedic, fast-paced explainer on how color works in cameras, displays and video.
Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes)
A binaural audio demo, the 'Virtual Barber Shop', that places a barber moving around your head.
Segmented Displays
Posy explores segmented displays, from the seven-segment display to alternative designs with fewer or more segments, with patents and history.
Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)
A 24-hour loop of Star Trek TNG starship engine ambience, meant as background sound for relaxing, sleeping or concentrating.
Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon
Techmoan demonstrates the Tefifon, a vintage German audio player that combines elements of record and tape with a grooved elastic loop.
Riding the Booster with enhanced sound
Footage from a camera on a Space Shuttle solid rocket booster from liftoff through descent, with audio enhanced by Skywalker Sound from the original camera microphones.
Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™
Musician and audio engineer Benn Jordan tries Dolby Atmos as a consumer, covering the theory of immersive audio, its business model, and home theater and headphone listening.
World’s Best Speakers!
Tech Ingredients shows how to build flat panel speakers from exciters and foam board, with construction guidelines, measured SPL comparisons and a complete system playing music.
what did you do
Noodle explores how retro pixel art was designed for CRT displays and why games look different on LCDs, with input from pixel artists and CRT researchers.
Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio
A Google I/O 2013 talk by Android audio engineers on why reliable, low-latency audio is hard on the platform.
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
Technology Connections explains why the superheterodyne radio has its name and how mixing frequencies lets it tune stations well.
Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality
Tom Scott explains why confetti and snow wreck video quality, using interframe compression and bitrate.
How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
Jerobeam Fenderson shows how to draw a mushroom on an oscilloscope in XY mode using stereo audio, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave.
E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
A Technology Connections update video in which Alec Watson tests an Onyx Boox Max e-ink Android tablet used as an external display and shares channel news.
I could hardly believe my eyes! - Looking Glass Holographic Monitor
Linus Tech Tips reviews the Looking Glass 8K holographic display, a glasses-free 3D monitor.
The Loudness War
A two-minute demonstration of the loudness war, showing how heavy dynamic range compression in CD mastering makes music louder while degrading sound quality.