Youtube Upload, increase quality/control (HQ hack obsolete)

[Renzo88]

Here's my attempt at trying to imitate "FreeOurTube":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efg8SyuTto

will try other codecs once I find some other HD source,but

FreeOurTube, Can you pm me on how yours is acommplished ?

[virtualgamesco]

^ You really should wait for a full 24 hours, but it looks nice so far!

[manono]

^ You really should wait for a full 24 hours, but it looks nice so far!

No it doesn't. Or doesn't it matter that the aspect ratio is all wrong? This isn't supposed to be a 1.33:1 video. In my opinion you can make it as pretty as you like, but if the girl looks like she's anorexic it's wasted effort. That logo is supposed to be round. Also, for me it stutters and pauses like crazy.

[Renzo88]

^ You really should wait for a full 24 hours, but it looks nice so far!

No it doesn't. Or doesn't it matter that the aspect ratio is all wrong? This isn't supposed to be a 1.33:1 video. In my opinion you can make it as pretty as you like, but if the girl looks like she's anorexic it's wasted effort. That logo is supposed to be round. Also, for me it stutters and pauses like crazy.

lol, ur bit critical over the content of the video. like Virtualgamesco said I should've waited longer to post anything, but it 's simple test to see if I could upload videos like "FreeOurTube"'s amazing videos. The video sutters due to the high bit rate and original video size was 1024x576. My aim was to get "FreeOurTube" attention but thanks for your input..

[mikejf]

Here's my attempt at trying to imitate "FreeOurTube":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efg8SyuTto

will try other codecs once I find some other HD source,but

FreeOurTube, Can you pm me on how yours is acommplished ?

nice test- looks amazing and plays superb HD full screen on my 21" widescreen monitor! stops at :52 seconds, but I guess that's all it is

[frifox]

woot, got H264 vid up and running successfully... now i'm ironing out the glitches. i'll post a demo vid once i'm done

[Spartacomp]

Hey, Spartacomp. Sorry to ask, but could you send me the new method? I'd greatly appreciate it.
EDIT: Never mind. I see you have a ton of n00bs to deal with, so forget it. I'll stick with w16.

Virtualgamesco, there's something I don't understand. I have sent the first method in a private message to you as of July 3 and it is still in my outbox, meaning you never even cared to take a look at it. Please open that message first and then I will send the HQ Stereo method with proper thumbnail to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Mrz-eZIRY

Greetings,

Spartacomp

[Belden]

Hello, I've been trying for awhile now to observe the going ons of this whole endeavor of YT-HQ. I've also tried a few methods proposed by meny of you. I understand that you all probably have a large amount of persons questioning you when it comes to problems. so I am very sorry If I am in anyway sounding redundant, and If I am over steping anything please feel free to delete my post.

I am attempting to upload a Picture + Audio in HQ to YT.
I used a 1024 x 768 JPG, 128kbps audio file, and muxed it using ffmpeg with Frifox's command.

ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -acodec copy -loop_input -f image2 -i video.png -vcodec flv -r 1 -g 10 -qscale 2 -shortest uTubeVideo.flv

I tried uploading the resulting FLV to Youtube, but shortly after it was converted back to low quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9La1yJpseIw
I'm inquiring because I was curious if this is the method you are still currently using to upload your latest videos like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtOfQbR5eE and the new entries don't look hexed like some of your previous entries. Again, if I am asking questions I shouldn't be I'm sorry, I tried to read this thread over quite a few times and try out meny of the methods.

[frifox]

just sorted out most of the just.... here are the demo vids:


Demo #1 "H264 + AAC":
- Video: H264
- Audio: AAC
- Total Bitrate: <350Kbps so no duration-hacking was required
PS: note the change of picture quality @ 00:03... thats H263 (-sameq in ffmpeg) vs H264 (220Kbps ABR in MeGUI) for you

Demo #2 "Surround Sound?"
- Video: H264
- Audio: 5.1 AAC
- Total Bitrate: >350Kbps so i faked duration from 21sec to 60sec
- Youtube Player still shows the correct 21sec duration


the only thing i couldnt figure out... seeking doesnt work while youtube's player still plays 00:00 to 00:03... but if it played first 3 seconds, and started streaming H264 portion of the video, seeking works just fine

[Spritemoney]

Frifox, and everyone, sorry about that, also frifox, i saw that h.264 video, good quality, i have to try it. Thanks again, and sorry again
That is pretty amazing you made a h.264 video with aac quality and no crash when u hit full screen

[MePerson]

I know about the w16 method, but how do you get a non-pixalated thumbnail?

Also, it seems like there is some way to use different codecs. Is that method working well, or should I just stick with the w16 method?

[FreeOurTube]

I'm going to call it quits regarding all this YT hacking as I've reached my goals, so don't PM me about it, please. Methods have been shared among main contributors of this thread; figure out who to bug.

Bye.

[Spartacomp]

I'm going to call it quits regarding all this YT hacking as I've reached my goals, so don't PM me about it, please. Methods have been shared among main contributors of this thread; figure out who to bug.

Bye.

You have my full understanding. Bye.

[virtualgamesco]

Hey, Spartacomp. Sorry to ask, but could you send me the new method? I'd greatly appreciate it.
EDIT: Never mind. I see you have a ton of n00bs to deal with, so forget it. I'll stick with w16.

Virtualgamesco, there's something I don't understand. I have sent the first method in a private message to you as of July 3 and it is still in my outbox, meaning you never even cared to take a look at it. Please open that message first and then I will send the HQ Stereo method with proper thumbnail to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Mrz-eZIRY

Greetings,

Spartacomp

Sorry, Sparta, but I think you sent it to the wrong person. I don't see any unread messages in my inbox. Send a PM to virtualgamesco < all lower-case.

[Spartacomp]

That's really strange, because as you can see, I sent it to you.

[virtualgamesco]

^ Oh, wow! I'm such a dumb@ss. I thought you were talking about my YouTube account... I apologize for my lack of competence.

[Spartacomp]

^ Oh, wow! I'm such a dumb@ss. I thought you were talking about my YouTube account... I apologize for my lack of competence.

Okay, I will send the complete method to you, right now!

[frifox]

can anybody confirm that the "Demo #2 "Surround Sound?" video i posted a couple posts above plays surround?
i dont have 5.1 system (only headphones) so i cant be sure that youtube's player actually plays the 5.1AAC audio in surround...


PS: using AAC at this time isnt the best idea... to play AAC audio you need a quite recent version of Adobe Flash, which not everyone has. i would suggest you stick with MP3 audio...

[FreeOurTube]

kaourantin.net[/url]]# AAC SBR offers demonstrable advantages over plain MP3, think 5.1 channel surround sound f.ex. While the Flash Player does only support 2 channels output at this time, there is opportunity to go beyond that.

You have to wait until Flash Player 10 at least.

[FoxLocked]

ok i don't know if im changing the subject but can you guys tell me which video looks better? (i uploaded these video yesterday)

Test
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LjH_aFGEqMA

C test
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3BtwjCSMbwU

CZ test
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qFdPkHF7FrY

[Spritemoney]

zappa's flv reader doesn't work anymore

[FoxLocked]

What do you mean by that?
Did it encode to low quality or what?

[dark_guard]

Doesn't work for me anymore either. Get's reconverted shortly after.

[Spritemoney]

What do you mean by that?
Did it encode to low quality or what?

yEAH I was doing some tests ,and i used zapps' flv reader, and it got Reconverted, in 10 min, the one i upload 2 days ago, didn't.

[FoxLocked]

i will try to upload a video with zappa's reader and see what happens to mines

[frifox]

as with everything else i do, here's a more extreme demo:

1280x720 H264/AAC @ 1430Kbps (2:38min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIDLGi60r08


now, i'm off to optimize my x264 encoding skills. any suggestions?

[FoxLocked]

nice! where did you find that video?? it would be a good video to test on.

[FreeOurTube]

It's all over guys, time to get on with our lives.

[rajman]

It's all over guys, time to get on with our lives.

Hey whats all over?

[frifox]

It's all over guys, time to get on with our lives.

for me its over only when i see that i cant improve anymore

on the other hand, yes... we've accomplished everything we wanted to...
HQ, >350Kbps videos, good thumbnail, no glitches, H264, AAC, Surround Audio, and heck i even got 5.1WAV file to work

now its youtube's turn. we'll see how long this lasts hahaha