Posted: 9/2/2007 10:46 PM
Post subject: Encoding for Youtube
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antd
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I found that some of my videos did not look good on youtube. I tried out many codecs and none of them could improve the quality after they were uploaded to Youtube. Even lossless encodes didn't look any better after Youtube got their hands on them. My videos are short so lossless is good and under 100MB with good compression. So I'm wondering, should I encode lossless above 320x240? (youtube encodes to this res) Would the plugin in use change things at all? Maybe some stages just don't compress well.... but the same stage in other videos look better....
Posted: 9/2/2007 10:51 PM
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Comicalflop
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From my experience, nothing looks good once youtube has gotten its grubby encoding hands on it. I wouldn't bother. some suggestions: x264 and 320x240 might want to look into multiple passes that publishable avis are made with What I did for my very short SSB individual stages was encode full frames compressed, then convert that movie file to .wmv format. It got them to be of extremely high file size .avi's (in the GB range), then once converted to .wmv they became low file high quality movies. and youtube seemed to not screw up the quality too bad.
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Posted: 9/2/2007 11:22 PM
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Raiscan
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The problem is that once its in the hands of YouTube, it encodes it into a Flash Video 7 (.flv) format, which is pretty bad. Recent betas of Flash 9 have H.264 support, but I doubt YouTube will make the rush to it since the majority of browsers have nothing greater than Flash 7 installed.
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Posted: 9/3/2007 3:42 AM
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If you check my Yo! Noid TAS there, you'll find a great quality, while my Trackmania Nations speedrun video is at a terrible quality. It's just that some games' graphics don't compress well, while others do, as it should be expected.
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Posted: 9/3/2007 6:18 PM
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320*240 ratio is pretty essential if you want to keep the video as simalar as possible to the one you've just uploaded.