[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:39:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 7/18/14, 12:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2014-07-18 17:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Somehow the same DConf videos are of better quality on 
>>> archive.org than
>>> on youtube.com. Could you explain that? -- Andrei
>>
>> You're streaming and not downloading from Youtube. I always 
>> download
>> longer video clips from Youtube. I don't want any buffering 
>> while watching.
>
> Is there an easy way to download off of youtube one of DConf 
> talks at the same quality as the archive.org content? -- Andrei

Do you increase the resolution of your Youtube videos when you 
don't like the quality that it's streaming?  It's not clear if 
you are complaining about the quality because you're on a slow 
network and Youtube is giving you the low-quality encode, or if 
you don't like their higher-quality encodes also.

If you click on the Settings icon that looks like a gear below 
the video, you can force the quality as high as the original 
video uploaded, by changing the default "Auto" resolution mode.  
I can't complain about their HD encodes.  As for downloading from 
Youtube, that's not really officially supported, but scripts/apps 
like the one linked earlier will do it.

Have you looked at Vimeo?  They're probably the second-biggest 
video site after Youtube and are sticklers for quality 
resolution, as they used to focus on the indie filmmaker 
community, and they officially support downloading videos, if the 
uploader chooses to enable that option.