Graham send me an email just a few minutes ago informing me that Youtube users could finally upload high definition videos to Youtube which have the benefit of a much sharper, clearer image and the negative side effect (for some users) of a size increase of the videos.
This is however not the official solution but more a temporary solution found out by users who discovered that Youtube did not encode certain videos that have been encoded by the user to Flash Video format. Normally Youtube reduces the resolution of each video that gets uploaded which is the reason for the low resolution experience.
If a user uploads a video with the following settings it will not be encoded into a lower resolution. I will post some examples of high def Youtube videos and an instruction video as well at the end of the article:
- 640 x 480 size
- An (Audio) framerate of 44100
- A (Video) framerate of 25 fps
- A bitrate of 320 kbit/s
- Video bitrate varies:
- 2000 kbps for a 1:00 minute video
- 1000 kbps for a 2:15 minute video
- 512 kbps for a 4:00 minute video
- 4:3 Aspect ratio or your chosen ratio (4:3 is for widescreen)
There are two negative aspects. The first is a duration bug which does not display the right playing time of the video and the second is that it takes more time to stream the contents to the user to achieve a smooth video playback.
The benefits on the other hard are a much cleaner, sharper video that is a joy to watch.
Youtube HD Video
Youtube Tutorial Uploading HD Videos
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Looks like the second video has been taken down. I guess they see it as a kind of hack or something maybe?
There’s a similar trick posted here: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html
Tysen the second video is working fine right now.
640×480 is not HD.
Two points on what promised to be an exciting possibility:
1) This individual has hit upon a method for getting the most out of what is possible from YouTube, but it is far from HD in any sense.
2) The video converters he touts for this method are shareware with a trial period. An economic interest at work?
Nice info to know, though.
Pff, this is hardly something I would call HD. Plus that the info is false.
Read the real options for higher quality here:
http://jult.net/archive/2008/02/25/YouTube_sneekily_goes_high_qua
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic346256.html
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882-420.html
Watch YouTube HD – higher definition, and download MP4 videos, check this site:
http://www.ouideo.com/youtube/
Really good !