Posted: 5/26/2010 8:26 PM
Post subject: YouTube Hates WIPs
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Antoids
Joined: 8/27/2009
Posts: 159
Location: California
So recently I uploaded a quick WIP for someone showing a trick in DKC2. No big deal under normal circumstances, but then this came out. Reuploading to Dailymotion, the video was at normal quality. This is the original file. Any idea what the hell happened? It's gotta be something on YouTube's end, but, as I prefer uploading to YouTube to Dailymotion, I'd like to figure out what to do to stop this. This has happened with everything I've recorded in the past 12 or so hours. I did mess around with some settings, but I just changed them to the TAS standards (in the ffdshow configuration, I switched to x264 instead of H264).
Posted: 5/26/2010 8:48 PM
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arflech
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Posts: 1120
x264 is naught but the best damn h.264 encoder period but some programs that process videos for Flash streaming don't quite know how to deal with such optimized video files; YouTube may warp the colors, and archive.org may wash out the detail from the original
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Posted: 5/26/2010 8:56 PM
Post subject: Re: YouTube Hates WIPs
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Velitha
Joined: 3/31/2010
Posts: 84
Location: Middle of Nowhere
Antoids wrote:
So recently I uploaded a quick WIP for someone showing a trick in DKC2. No big deal under normal circumstances, but then this came out.
Dear god that's horrid. Insert "Drugs are bad and that's why" joke here.
Posted: 5/26/2010 9:17 PM
(Edited: 5/26/2010 9:48 PM)
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Flygon
Joined: 11/4/2007
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Location: Australia, Victoria
From what you're describing, the encode you uploaded was lossless. Encode the video into a lossy format instead, I suggest using a quality quantizer rating of 20 inside ffdshow.
Posted: 5/26/2010 9:43 PM
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Antoids
Joined: 8/27/2009
Posts: 159
Location: California
Ah, I see. Thanks, flygon. Silly youtube. Glad it was all sorted out, though.