Youtube: high quality uploads with no 10min limit

[frifox]

After some experimentation I found out that you can upload videos longer than 11:00 to youtube AND still have it in original formal, aka have youtube host your video without re-encoding it to normal 320x240 video / 64Kbps mono audio.

1. Encode your video to FLV video format.
--- (I dont think there are any restrictions as long as total bitrate is UNDER 350Kbps)
2. Edit the FLV header and change duration to "84 A0 00 00 00 00 00 00" (11:00 minutes)
3. Upload to Youtube



For more info and step-by-step tutorial visit this thread:
Youtube Upload, increase quality/control (HQ hack obsolete)

EXAMPLE UPLOAD (note that there is NO DURATION BUG):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SWhn82rrpgw


everyone is welcome to experiment. any feedback would be helpful!

[MJA]

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html

[frifox]

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html

i'm aware of that thread, i even linked to in in the post above... in the title it says "HQ hack obsolete" and what i laid out above is NOT obsolete. in fact, this hole i found in youtube's system is new and was made possible as a result of their recent system upgrade, on feb 4th 2008.

but if mods have a problem with this "thread separation", i'm okay with moving the info from first post to the old thread...

[mmmarie]

have youtube host your video without re-encoding it to normal 320x240 video / 64Kbps mono audio.

oh nice, i checked out your video and you really managed to get a HQ. sooo how were you able to do that? i mean, although you linked it back to the previous thread, i still dont get it when you tried to say the one i quoted.

[frifox]

hold on... it seems that youtube busted this hole too, about 30mins ago i'm trying it out and it reports "Rejected (video length is too long)"...

[bayme]

hold on... it seems that youtube busted this hole too, about 30mins ago i'm trying it out and it reports "Rejected (video length is too long)"...

LOL, yeah, it's a cat-mouse game and they're reading with us alright.

[MJA]

lol.next time don't share ,just keep it for your self

[bayme]

hold on... it seems that youtube busted this hole too, about 30mins ago i'm trying it out and it reports "Rejected (video length is too long)"...

Have you tried 10:59 instead of 11:00 as your duration?

It's the same with the 350 kbit/s bw-limit now. Everything 350 is too high, only 349 and below works. I used to be able to sometimes have 350 kbit/s videos untouched as well, that's no longer the case. The barrier is absolute now.

[frifox]

i'm pretty sure that doesnt matter now... they changed how they check flv properties (duration), so hexing will not work.