[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[deadalnix 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

My experience with youtbe is that they render the video in 
various resolutions. They then try to adapt the user connection 
speed by serving a lower or higher quality video.

When you upload the video, at first, only the low quality is 
available. Higher quality come later.