[OT] Uploading DConf videos

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 00:31:33 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

This. Vimeo is quite popular, quality shouldn't be a problem and 
people aren't going to wait for an hour like with archive.org.

Andrei: I'm about 90% sure you're doing something wrong. I've 
never seen a HD youtube video with such low quality.

Either you didn't set the resolution higher (default is 360p or 
something), or you have a crappy connection and YouTube refuses 
to stream high-quality
(it happened to me a few times that I still got the low-quality 
video after setting it to HD - refresh (F5) after setting the 
resolution sometimes works),
or as said above you made that screen only a few seconds after 
starting/skipping a part of the video.