[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/18/14, 9:32 AM, ponce wrote:
> On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 15:44:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/17/14, 11:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 18/07/14 03:55, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>>> This man has it right. I dont think quality is a huge issue though
>>>> unless youre watching something that needs to be sensitive to the
>>>> eye in
>>>> which case youtube will work just fine for these videos.
>>>
>>> Youtube supports resolutions of 4k, I don't see the problem with
>>> quality.
>>
>> Somehow the same DConf videos are of better quality on archive.org
>> than on youtube.com. Could you explain that? -- Andrei
>
> archive.org serves the same file you uploaded to Youtube, without change.
>
> Youtube always re-encodes the video, for various reasons:
> - sources are very heterogeneous
> - multiple formats needed for various devices, various resolutions, and
> bandwidth adaptation
> - insanely low bitrates (3000kbps for 1080p H.264 is scarce, yet it's
> not so bad with the encode Youtube does)
>
> So while Youtube quality might be worse, the used bitrates are probably
> not the same. My opinion is that it's best to let Youtube serve the
> content for maximum reach.

And you can always download a high-quality version from YouTube in 
various formats (including the original format) using something like 
ClipGrab.