[k_munic]

I'd like to upload some of my homemovies (dv) to youtube..

I'm impressed by the mpeg4 results of iSquint, much better then the QT6 encodings..

Question:
youtube asks for 320x240 (NTSC/4, I'm in PAL country)

any recommendation about the bitrates?
(on my website, I use 700kB => crystal sharp titles etc... too much for youtube?)

I do interlace, because "to web" - that's correct?

has anybody any "inside knowledge", with what settings youtube converts to .flv?

thanks in advance...

[Steve SpotOn]

Sorry I don't have an answer to your post.... but I too was wondering what format to submit.

Did you get anywhere with this, or did you try submitting something with any sort of success?

Steve

[sonicularulus]

i do lots of uploading to youtube...
for me, i use the following settings when uploading to youtube:
h.264 @ 320x240 set to low/med (right in the middle of the two selections) quality
then i set the audio to encode at aac @ 128

i dont have any inside knowledge, but i played around the settings and i found these to bring me good quality at lower file sizes, making it an easier upload to youtube...
i can get 4 to 5 minute home made music videos under 15 megabytes when using these settings

[k_munic]

I've posted in many fora - nobody does know how the encoding takes place; as anybody can see, the final size is 1/4 NTSC (320x240), 15fps, .flv format… audio is mp3, 22050kHZ…

my interest is:
as we all know, it makes no sense, to encode from a lossy format…
best case would be to upload uncompressed video , but what happens, when I encode direct from my source (homevideo = DV) to that settings? do they re-encode it again? what's up with my PAL settings? what about VBR, CBR? what about bitrates, VLC tells me 240 - 310 kB/sec, but that is just playback... and I use an old Cube..

needs more research and tests... I will burn some bandwidth…

[Nap]

I am not a member of youtube but I looked around the site and it said flash was used for display and that divx or xvid should work well for your source.

[sonicularulus]

i would say that it doesnt really matter at what qualty you encode it at...
just aim for a 320x240 encode..nothing smaller...
avoid getting the file too big..be reasonable...
dont take a 5 minute music video and try to upload it uncompressed which may be well over 200 megabytes...
try to encode at a quality which looks similar to what is seen on youtube...
that way, you dont waste your time uploading high quality video and only receiving low quality, pixelated video...