Uploading High Quality Videos on YouTube -DEPRECATED-

WARNING: This method does not work as of February 4, 2008.
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Check out Armando's Tut for 2pass encoding using MEncoder. http://youtube.com/watch?v=g0ijzRfb1Pw

Real length of this video is 3:06

Quick comparison of video quality using and without using the method
LQ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw2qvfEu0Yc
HQ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-Wh33U-ww

This video describes the method to bypass YouTube's video conversion which makes everything crap.

All credit to 45tripp at videohelp.com forum http://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html for finding and sharing the method. The video is just one way of doing it.

I'm not an expert in the whole video editing/processing/encoding business which should be pretty obvious from the VARIOUS problems this video suffers from.

Here are the links to the mentioned tools:

-MediaInfo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/

-xvi32
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

-Riva FLV Encoder
http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder
(requires flash plugin installed for Internet Explorer. I didn't have it when I tried to make the video, which gave me a little trouble)

Grab them all in a zip file:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8im8ek

If the above link dies, get it from http://blip.tv/file/get/Xtmnx-YoutubeHQSet420.avi and change extension to .zip. (Yeah, cheap file hosting)

Note:
1. This method might fail to work at anytime. It worked fine as of Dec. 23, 2007.

2. Do check out that forum post link above. Everything much better explained. You definitely wanna use multipass encoding for longer videos which you can't do with Riva. (afaik)

3. You want your original video to be as high quality as possible, with resolution at least equal to 480x360.

4. List of hex values (c+p'd from 45tripp's post)

4E00 (the rest zeroes) = 1 min
5E00 = 2 min
6680 = 3 min
6E00 = 4 min
72C0 = 5 min
7680 = 6 min
7A40 = 7 min
7E00 = 8 min
80E0 = 9 min
82C0 = 10 min
849F = 10:59 min
84A0 = 11 min

YouTube safely accepts 11 minutes.

5. Videos processed this way will show false length when uploaded and played in YouTube player.

6. To be honest, you wouldn't really wanna go 2800b/s like in the video, which just makes the video take longer to load without much quality difference. Experiment with video bitrate and find balance between size and quality to suit your needs. 700-1000kbps seems good enough for me.

7. This screenshot might help with using xvi32.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/tmn/youtubehighquality.PNG

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• video
• high
• quality
• youtube
• uploading
• tutorial
• hax

[xtmnx]

Oh wow I completely forgot I had posted this video. Checking back in like 2 years.

People this thing doesn't work any more (and I'll bet half of the links in the description are dead). I should really remove it but I'm just gonna leave it as is.

At least youtube levelled up somewhat since I posted this in terms of quality/video duration etc etc.

[GuruGulu]

how do you put videos in files someone I'm begging you to reply.

[xtmnx]

I have no clue what you're asking.

[GarethKernow]

Thanks for the info but..

your music sucks so baaaad.

it sound like a fire in a pet shop.

what's the matter with ya?

lol

[xtmnx]

Why would you thank for info that doesn't work?

[VenomSilos]

I think a better question would be: Why do you have a video on YouTube that doesn't work?!

[xtmnx]

That's for me to decide.

[guitarjed]

Man i tried every format to upload to youtube good video's, i tried Avi ..WMV.. FLV Files & still my video's look like pixelated garbage, they are good quality files but as soon as youtube process them they are total crap..i tried everything & nothing works it's driving me mad!!!!!!!!!

[Bllasae]

WTF are you asking?

[thumbtack40]

you state yourself it does not work....make it private for your own records then.... thank you

[JackGoldSword]

OH MY GOD WHAT THE F*** IS THAT ITS TOOOOOOO HARD NO THANKS

[AndrosForever]

why isn't THIS video HD? It sure could use it to read better :/

[Blooddrunker01]

i dont understarnd this.

[screamo23]

This is a zelda theme music remix, is it not?

where did you find? :D I absolutely love zelda!

[medad1]

My problem is the words appears on screen are not clear could this solve the problem?

[n310ea]

I've always thought in order to make high quality videos, you just have to have a high quality camera.

[theonciest]

Song name? You left that out. :P