YouTube Very High Quality Uploads?

[anime101]

I have been reading here for a while searching and seem to have found some tutorials but am confused as they say obsolete or no longer works. Although 11 minute high quality videos keep popping up on youtube uploads. So does it work or is there a new method? How do i do it? This user uploaded this extremely high quality video but all I'm aware of is the watch in high quality method which is no where near this good. How do i do this as people on youtube that do know are jerks ignoring comments and questions about it from other users. I also noticed on all of these 11 minute videos that there is no watch in high quality. In other words, high quality by default. I ask the kind person willing to share this information: HOW? Please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnt-GbYs9f0

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[zoobie]

maybe they read the directions?

[jman98]

We get a ton of posts asking about this. There's some endless thread that talks about it. You can wade through the posts if you really care. The Video Streaming forum has many posts on the subject including one on You Tube quality with over 600 posts.

If nothing you try works for you, I'd suggest that you consider 2 things.
1) If this has anything to do with a business, you have a broken business model. Note that even if you find a way to upload a high quality video that there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that prevents You Tube from taking your video and re-encoding it to 120x90 at 100 Kbps in the future.
2) If you don't have a business that depends on You Tube, maybe you just need to stop obsessing about the quality of a service you don't pay for and thus have no control over.

Good luck, but based on how many times this question gets asked and how long that one thread is, I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't able to ever get high quality video on You Tube. It seems to me that most people who try fail, but I just don't care enough to look into it myself to have some idea why they fail. I can tell you that some people paid over a year ago for a special membership at You Tube and those people were allowed to upload videos without the restrictions that free members have.

[ricardouk]

In other words, high quality by default. I ask the kind person willing to share this information: HOW? Please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnt-GbYs9f0

that video was added on the 2nd of July before youtube decided to put an alt to the hacking.

your best bet would be to use the settings used and discussed over here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882-1650.html#1876944

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882-1650.html#1879624

there are loads of youtube threads already here that discuus this... here's two.... search before...

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic346256.html

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

[Captain Satellite]

I upload my videos in .mp4 and get a high quality option within minutes. Is it really that hard?

[NerdWithNoLife]

Do you mean you want to get the "watch in high quality" link? Or do you want to upload one of those flash videos that doesn't get reconverted?

Trying to get videos through without reconversion is a constant struggle, I think. Just when you think you've got the answer they go and change stuff again. Believe me. But it's not so hard to get the link, if that's all you want.

[anime101]

I upload my videos in .mp4 and get a high quality option within minutes. Is it really that hard?

If you read my post thoroughly you would've read that I already know how to get a high quality link.

Do you mean you want to get the "watch in high quality" link? Or do you want to upload one of those flash videos that doesn't get reconverted?

Trying to get videos through without reconversion is a constant struggle, I think. Just when you think you've got the answer they go and change stuff again. Believe me. But it's not so hard to get the link, if that's all you want.

Yes I'm already aware of that method, I wanted to upload it unconverted but it seems impossible at this time. Thank you very much for all of your help, all of you.

[Captain Satellite]

I upload my videos in .mp4 and get a high quality option within minutes. Is it really that hard?

If you read my post thoroughly you would've read that I already know how to get a high quality link.

Too many words!

[brassplyer]

I ask the kind person willing to share this information: HOW? Please.

Here's a thought on this subject. I started reading this board semi-ernestly about a month or two before YouTube seemed to go on a quest to thwart various hacks to upload high quality vids. At one point you could upload .flv files that you encoded yourself and as long as they averaged under 350kbps and 11 minutes, they wouldn't get re-encoded. You could really boost the quality level if you created a fairly short high bitrate .flv and tagged on an extremely low bitrate black file, a hack some called bitrate stuffing.

I tried doing a few this way and while it was an interesting experiment, there's still a problem. YouTube's servers will only deliver so many kbps. So, to view some 2 or 3 minute 1200 kbps masterpiece without it constantly stalling, rebuffering etc. you have to pause it and wait for the whole thing to load into your cache. Realistically kind of a pain.

You can use the &fmt=18 trick to get a fairly high quality video but last I checked, YouTube has implemented either by design or incompetence a lousy compressor/limiter algorithm so that it destroys the sound quality with it getting LOUD soft LOUD soft if you do it that way.

If you want to share high quality original vids, there's a site called Vimeo that doesn't impose nearly the restrictions that YouTube does and even supports HD. Be advised it's also not the wild west of copyright infringement that YouTube is.