Handbrake / Youtube Question.

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arc@css

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Hi,

I've recorded some game play which I wish to upload to youtube, and have compressed it with handbrake. Unfortunately, the amount of time youtube is reading for the upload to be completed looks greater than I expected. For around a 50 minute video, it advises that it will take nearly 500 minutes! Does that look about right or not?
 
How big is the file?

YouTube is very slow for uploads. I imagine they're limited due to the volume being uploaded constantly.
 
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That looks like it's probably accurate to me, upload speed is pretty much always slower than download speed. Unless you're on fiber, but even then it's not inconceivable for a long video.
 
The local council have blocked Vimeo in schools, and I wanted to upload a 4GB file to our Vimeo channel. Checking how long it would take to upload at home, it suggested over 300 hours, assuming maximum upload speed was attained.

Thankfully, I saw Vimeo allowed uploading through Dropbox (though that'll probably be blocked within the week :rolleyes:).
 
@ Mynight - the file size being uploaded was, I think, around 1.3gb.

@ KIA - I'll run speedtest later and report back (currently using the net for videos).

@ Bledd - the resolution was was left as normal in handbrake, so it turned out as only 360p (my aim is for at least 720p). I used youtube's editing feature and it raised the res to 480p. I've tried tinkering with the resolution settings with handbrake, but I'm not sure about what I'm doing. I might post back some pictures later of the settings I've used.
 
Mynight said:
How big is the file?

YouTube is very slow for uploads. I imagine they're limited due to the volume being uploaded constantly.
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Can't agree with that at all..

I've uploaded files on up to 1Gb/s lines and it utilized the lot.


arc@css, it all depends on what your upload speed is.
 
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I stand corrected then sorry.

Whenever I've tried to upload to youtube I max out at 0.5mbps whereas upload to any other site I use is north of 3.5mbps. When I searched to see if there was a fix I found numerous complaints I assumed it was fairly standard practice. (Teach me to believe everything I read :D)
 
I have an 8mb line (TalkTalk) - at least that's what I thought, though now I come to think of it, perhaps there was a catch to them suddenly dropping my monthly payment.

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Everything else though, online CS:S and other stuff like downloading game files all seem to be quick, at least as far as I'm concerned anyway.
 
Yeah.. That upload speed is pretty poor :p

I remember when I was on such low upload speed, only option was to leave PC on and upload overnight unfortunately - have you considered that?

I haven't used Handbrake before, so can't comment on video file settings, sorry!
 
YarwoodUK said:
Yeah.. That upload speed is pretty poor :p

I remember when I was on such low upload speed, only option was to leave PC on and upload overnight unfortunately - have you considered that?

I haven't used Handbrake before, so can't comment on video file settings, sorry!
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Yeah, I might contact my isp and ask about other packages they do. The puzzling thing is that towards the end of last year, I uploaded a few test videos. Some of these were at a higher resolution than the one that prompted me to make this thread, yet they were considerably faster to upload. :confused:

Yes, I have left it on overnight to upload. It takes a good seven to eight hours (or more) to complete a 360p video. :(
 
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The source is 900x600

Very odd size. If you wanted 1080p.the source would need to be at least 1920x1080.

You can't simply 'up' the resolution.
 
bledd. said:
The source is 900x600

Very odd size. If you wanted 1080p.the source would need to be at least 1920x1080.

You can't simply 'up' the resolution.
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Yeah, I have tinkered with the resolution before uploading in other examples, but sometimes it reverts back to 900x600.
 
arc@css said:
When uploading, youtube gives me the message 'Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable file format'.
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It may process faster but it still won't help your terrible upload speeds, as the processing part is a different stage from uploading. Apart from trying to get a new internet package with better upload speeds, the other way is to shrink the video file. Seeing as the resolution is 960 x 600, perhaps drop it to 768 x 480? Should shrink the file size by a far bit. Maybe tick the "Web optimized" setting as well.
 
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