Uploading to Youtube

[Eddie Sheehy]

Uploading videos to Youtube can take forever. They are converted on the fly to FLV format by Youtube. It is much quicker if you convert them yourself first. There are a number of FLV Converter programs out there, some of them are Freeware. As with all Internet Downloads, beware of imbedded Trojans (use your antivirus to check the .exe after you download it and before you run it) and don't forget to uncheck the add-ons like Dealio and special Toolbars...
These converters also convert FLV's (Youtube Videos) to the other formats - MPEG, XVID, AVI etc.

[OldSausage]

It is much quicker if you convert them yourself first.

Thanks for the tip Eddie, that's very useful, I did not know that.

[mandolinbill1949]

Uploading videos to Youtube can take forever. They are converted on the fly to FLV format by Youtube. It is much quicker if you convert them yourself first. There are a number of FLV Converter programs out there, some of them are Freeware. As with all Internet Downloads, beware of imbedded Trojans (use your antivirus to check the .exe after you download it and before you run it) and don't forget to uncheck the add-ons like Dealio and special Toolbars...
These converters also convert FLV's (Youtube Videos) to the other formats - MPEG, XVID, AVI etc.

Or just usr a quicker uploader.

[Bill Snyder]

If you are uploading to You Tube you have to use their "uploader".

[Chris Keth]

If you are uploading to You Tube you have to use their "uploader".

He's not talking about that. He's talking about encoding your video file into flash video format (.flv), which is normally done on-the-fly while you upload it. If you do the encoding yourself before uploading it, you can do it faster. Then when you upload it, it will just upload and will skip the encoding process.


If you have some knowhow of video compression, you can get a much better looking video, too. Their .flv encoder is pretty crude.

[Ivan Kelsall]

There's a FREEWARE programme called 'Any Video Converter' which will convert one format into another. I've used it the other way around to convert FLV music video files into MPEG files for viewing on my DVD player - however,the quality of YouTube clips is usually so atrocious
i don't bother any more,
Ivan

[Bill Snyder]

The OP's whole point was to speed things along you can convert before uploading. So I don't think that is what MandolinBill1949 was saying. Plus that is not uploading that is converting.

[P Josey]

Is there a way to upload with better quality? When I upload video the quality is usually pretty bad but the original video is high quality. My, and other's, videos are poor but lots of video on YouTube are very high quality. Why is that? Are there programs available to increase the quality of YouTube uploads?

[mandopete]

Yeah, I'll admit that this whole video thing is still mostly a mystery to me too. I uploaded some videos I took of Alan Bibey playing mandolins at our recent mandolin tasting event. I noticed they were pretty slow going so I just started the process and let it run while I sipped my coffee.

The quality is not too bad considering I shot it with my litlle Casio Exilim camera. I love this camera because it's small (fits in your pocket) and not only does it take reasonably decent video, but the sound is pretty good too.

[Mark Robertson-Tessi]

Is there a way to upload with better quality? When I upload video the quality is usually pretty bad but the original video is high quality. My, and other's, videos are poor but lots of video on YouTube are very high quality. Why is that? Are there programs available to increase the quality of YouTube uploads?

Recently they added the HQ buttons on videos that were uploaded in higher quality. It used to be a hidden switch (adding &fmt=18 to the end of the link, IIRC), but now it's explicit.

This YT link offers some ideas on how to get the best quality:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132460

From my experience, Xvid compression at 100MB per minute with 256k mp3 audio has always looked decent after upload.

Cheers
Mark