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Webdriver Torso YouTube account uploaded more than 77,000 in the past months a length of 10 seconds of video, video content has no meaning, just a series of static images of blue and red rectangles, each bottom right of the video shows Aqua.FLV words. These mysterious video caused a buzz on the Internet, it was considered to be advertising, there was speculation the video spy-related activities, it has even been speculated that alien is behind.

But the truth is actually sparse normal. Software Tester Isaul Vargas found that these mysterious video is just a company to test their video encoding software, measuring how YouTube compressed video.

7.7万个神秘网络视频的背后，真相竟是... - Youtube,视频,未解之谜 - IT资讯
7.7万个神秘网络视频的背后，真相竟是...

YouTube账号Webdriver Torso过去几个月上传了超过7.7万个长度10秒的视频，视频内容没有任何意义，只是展示了一系列蓝色和红色矩形的静态图像，每个视频右下角都显示aqua.flv字样。这些神秘视频在互联网上引发了热议，有人认为是广告宣传，有人猜测这些视频与间谍活动有关，甚至还有人推测背后是外星人。

但真相其实稀疏平常。软件测试员Isaul Vargas发现，这些神秘视频不过是一家公司测试他们的视频编码软件，测量YouTube如何压缩视频。