[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 18:54:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

The DConf 2013 videos are streamed from YouTube in HD, and the 
quality is quite good, but the DConf 2014 are not streamed in HD, 
and can make it difficult to read some text on the slides.

I don't know why they are different.  Perhaps the DCOnf 2014 
videos were re-encoded at a lower quality before they were 
uploaded.

Mike