[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 00:33:35 UTC, Mike wrote:
> 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

I take that back, this DConf 2014 video 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNvUIWFy02I) is streamed in HD.  
I'm not sure why the others aren't.