Jonathan Coulton

[snakeeaterfan23]

Being a huge fan of Jonathan Coulton, Im just gonna say, he doesnt really like MySpace. You are better off following him on Twitter, which he updates usually. Like a few every week. his name is @jonathancoulton. And you can keep up with him on his official page, which they showed.

[SomeDudeThatRants]

Love JC's work.

Heck, without geeks, we wouldn't have cars or computers >=)

[uytutyu895]

nice snatch

[akomc]

great video

[Dousch]

that was great :)

[INT3RNAUT]

I love your videos, they are a gateway into so many cool and interesting things. Next year fly out to the Calgary Stampede and do a report on the "drunkenest" place on earth.

[lazyjonny]

wish I knew more about being a geek... and could play an instrument

[dctcool]

I like that "Still Alive" song

[pop17]

Me too.

[pop17]

I am going to cover the iphone 3g launch tomorrow!!!

[qbasicer]

I hope you'll be covering the iPhone 3g tomorrow.

[pop17]

why isnt there high quality?

[CousinoMusic]

I'm watching it in high quality now.

To answer your question, since the higher quality version of your video takes longer for YouTube to process, it doesn't appear right away.

Love JoCo!!! I catch him every time he comes to Philly.

[Bucknik]

Sometimes it takes a few hours for the "watch in high quality" option to become available, as YouTube computers determine if your video is good enough for high quality viewing.

You probably already know this, but you can set your browser to always play "high quality" (if available) in your YouTube account settings.

[pop17]

wow I didnt know that.

[OigaKay]

Bucknik,

I gusee your 'good enough' is speaking of resolutions, not value or worthiness that kind of stuff,

computers are not smart enough for that, haha

[OigaKay]

Btw, enough resolutions is not enough,

YouTube only pick some file formats for 'High Quality',

no one exact know the secret, : D

[Bucknik]

I've found that there are two formats that they favor. WMV and MPG. I save my videos (which I'm certain you would find completely uninteresting, as most of my videos are focused toward Ohio State Buckeye fans) as 640x480 1meg/second WMV files, and they always get upgraded to high quality. I don't know if you have that option on a Mac, but a similar 1meg/sec MPG should work too.

As an experiment, I'll upload a recent video again as an MPG and see what happens.

[OigaKay]

Bucknik,

hey, thx for the info, it helps a lot!

someone tell me to upload in WMV with 2.0M/bps, but it's 3 success and 1 failure, FYI : P

[Bucknik]

Yes, it's a complex algorythm that automatically determines if your content sucks so badly that it isn't worth "high quality" bandwidth. ;) Just kidding...

It depends entirely on the digital quality of the video that you upload.

[OigaKay]

ya, there might a secret Google algorithm that can decide the 'creativity' of your videos worth a 'High Quality' badge or not, HAHAHA,

it's Google, anything is possible, lollll

[vtownpunks]

interweb famo!

[Rockguitarnow]

Excellent :)

Rock on !