Youtube now downgrades FLVs

dissociative · Post by **dissociative** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:35 pm

Youtube used to leave uploaded FLV format videos untouched but not anymore, it seems that are using a system that detects if a uploaded FLV video fits a specific filesize:Duration ratio, if so youtube will reencode the bitstreams downgrading the original quality, now I search for another possible video sharing website that allows uploading FLVs without touching the quality.

dr_slump · Post by **dr_slump** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:16 pm

Try myspace videos, I never tried to upload a video there, but the quality is much better compared to youtube, plus they seem to load faster.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:59 pm

Google Video?

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:43 pm

get your own web space. I and I'm sure most people prefer getting a .avi or something over flash players.

dissociative · Post by **dissociative** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:27 pm

paulguy wrote:get your own web space. I and I'm sure most people prefer getting a .avi or something over flash players.

Yeah but afaik the free web hosting services offers a very limited storage for the only purpose of sharing videos, the .avi format is very limited and seems not good for streaming when looking for a decent quality of audio

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:36 am

I wish Flash would implement HE-AAC audio support in the next flash version. And maybe a better video codec.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:09 pm

I wish flash would implement fucking transparency in linux so I don't have huge colored craters in my fucking webpages.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:43 am

spambot wrote:
paulguy wrote:get your own web space. I and I'm sure most people prefer getting a .avi or something over flash players.
Yeah but afaik the free web hosting services offers a very limited storage for the only purpose of sharing videos, the .avi format is very limited and seems not good for streaming when looking for a decent quality of audio

Nowadays, pay hosting is very cheap or you can usually find someone on the internet to host it but I can understand where you're coming from there. Now, about quality, I have no clue what you're talking about. 1, I said "or something" which could mean any container you want like mkv or ogg but certainly not something like mov or wmv unless you're a retard. 2, youtube doesn't offer steaming anyway as far as I know and 3, a standalone video could provide much greater audio and video quality than youtube or google video or any of those could ever offer.

Now, my beef with Flash video players is you usually have to jump through hoops to save the video to your computer and they tend to perform very poorly on older PCs and I'm sure they perform badly on a more modern PC, given higher quality video, such as HD content.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:45 am

casualsax3 wrote:I wish flash would implement fucking transparency in linux so I don't have huge colored craters in my fucking webpages.

linux lol

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:40 am

unintelligent people use windows

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:32 am

soulmata wrote:Windows is mostly used by unintelligent people.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:56 pm

dailymotion looks fine for me. Much better than youtube.