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Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Sun May 04, 2008 3:23 pm

Lately I've been uploading play-through videos of Portal and I've noticed despite following a video guide where the guy suggests using WMV with certain settings the quality still suffers.

I've spent countless late nights trying various ways to match the quality of say this video:



It's not amazing but mine look worse than that most of the time.



I use Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition to put my RAW FRAPS AVI together.

SO I was hoping at least one person on Interlopers had certain settings that they use!

P.S. I also noticed Youtube added a 'Watch Video in HD' option on some videos. ANY idea how to utilize that?

Please help! THANKS!
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby LekyIRL on Sun May 04, 2008 3:34 pm

Youtube generally has bad quailty,I'm not sure how you could make it better.
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Sun May 04, 2008 3:40 pm

Well originally I tried this hack (which no longer works):



It lets you upload a video with a higher bitrate at the cost of length...

But my point is there are crap videos and there are good videos on Youtube. I just wondered what would be the best settings to use, what codec, what size screen etc...Youtube's suggestion sucks by the way :>
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Wedde on Sun May 04, 2008 6:23 pm

Why use Youtube?, I miss Stage6. They had 100% no loss in quality upload, DVIX.
sorry for bumping, I cant help you but: maybe you dont have to use youtube?

Havent tried this sites out but tehy do exist: :P

http://tinypic.com/
http://www.veoh.com/ (Veoh is the site, when Stage6 whent down, all members used instead)


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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Sun May 04, 2008 7:55 pm

I agree with you that Youtube is the crappest place to ask for quality but that was before they introduced HD. I was hoping someone knew how to get that feature. Here's a vid that uses it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ-HyHoZc4 - You have to watch it in the old viewer and you'll see 'Watch in HD' under the video.

Any ideas?
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby ixin on Sun May 04, 2008 8:51 pm

'Watch in Highquality' you mean ;)

I've upped mine and in the old player you can put it on a higher quality.

I do miss Stage6... :( however I have found a site which uploads HD and you have a weekly limit of 500 MB

Besides that there is always www.filefront.com to upload HQ/HD vids (Unlimited)
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Sun May 04, 2008 9:13 pm

When you upped yours what settings did you render your video as? Cause the videos I'm uploading don't come up with the option...

I even uploaded a 640x480 AVI in Hi-Res and the option didn't come up...

Besides I use Youtube for the large amount of people that use it plus I already have I think 200 subscribers waiting for these vids XD
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby ixin on Sun May 04, 2008 11:54 pm

I deleted mine cause it was kinda buggy though but i've used the HD format 720p 1280x reso rendering but that's cause the game i made the vid for didn't have higher resolution. xD
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby ghost12332 on Mon May 05, 2008 12:29 am

Right off there website

You may have noticed that we're now giving you the option of watching some YouTube videos in higher quality. We're making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you'll find a greater percentage of the library is available to view in higher quality. This feature applies to all eligible videos uploaded from the YouTube community, and is not restricted to partner content, so everyone can enjoy this upgrade.


Seems its rather random :/
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Mon May 05, 2008 10:28 am

Alright thank you. I think I'll try uploading a 720p video and see if that gives it the option.
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby nub on Thu May 08, 2008 9:11 pm

Youtube automatically converts any submitted videos into .flv format. A friend of mine made a universal flv converter that is loss-less quality. Assuming your video is under 100mb, you can submit it in flv format to youtube and it won't lose any quality because of conversion to flv since it already is flv format. They just like to compress the video like crazy during the conversion process to keep the bandwidth to a minimum.
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby SlappyBag on Thu May 08, 2008 9:21 pm

Very clever nub. =P
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Re: Youtube Quality Question

Postby Habboi on Thu May 08, 2008 9:38 pm

Yeah when I used to do the quality hack they suggested converting to FLV but that was ages ago...Have you got a link to your friends program!? It'd really help and I'd link to his site to spread the word...I get a lot of views ^^

Good news I found out that the shitty program Windows Movie Maker seems to get the High Quality option when uploaded. You have to wait a while but it'll appear! Funny cause I spent ages looking for the perfect settings when all along the program I ditched was the answer.
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