[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:54:20 -0700
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:

> I'm not an expert in videos but as I mentioned I've studied a few 
> options last year before deciding to use archive.org as our reference 
> upload site.
> 
> I got curious just now, so I just uploaded two screenshots:
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/x1bsTNf.jpg with archive.org
> http://i.imgur.com/CEFCgAi.jpg with youtube.com
> 
> Indeed the archive.org resolutions looks visibly better; my 
> understanding is archive.org is streaming the very mp4 content I 
> uploaded to it. Could anyone give more detail on what processing
> youtube does?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

I think youtube always recodes videos. Probably to a lower bitrate and
and with faster, but lower quality encoding (single pass vs multipass,
etc.). For youtube formats, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs