View Full Version : QUICK youtube HD Question?


David Carter
January 11th, 2009, 04:10 PM
Hey guys. How long does it normally take for the "view in HD" option to come up on youtube with your vid after an upload? I've waited about an hour but no sign yet and the standard def version is shocking... Thanks

Ken Diewert
January 11th, 2009, 04:56 PM
give it a couple of hours and you should be good. It seems to vary a little.

David Carter
January 11th, 2009, 05:02 PM
Thanks Ken, its appeared now. It took about an hour and 20 mins. Pretty choppy playback at first but another 15 mins later all seems to have settled down and be playing ok.

Ken Diewert
January 11th, 2009, 10:29 PM
I didn't know about the delay at first, so I spent (wasted) many more hours re-encoding using different settings before realizing there was the delay.

Maybe we can save someone else some grief by posting this.

David Carter
January 12th, 2009, 05:44 AM
I hope so - I did the same thing, 3 uploads wasted. I'm still not happy with the playback and may delete the HD version due to choppy playback about half the time. It's important to discuss this in a public forum to help others in the same position. It's still new technology so will have issues I reckon.

View my film THE WAY on this link

YouTube - THE WAY (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iMTscNsqnPk)

ps let me know how it plays back, thanks

Gary Brun
January 12th, 2009, 07:07 AM
Hi David.
Its very choppy in HD playback for me.
Great production though..

David Carter
January 12th, 2009, 07:41 AM
I'll upload a new one youtube HD sadly aint quite good enough yet. I used the settings suggested in another thread but will revisit them with a new upload later today. Thanks for the feedback!

David Carter
January 12th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Speed of HD download still exceptionally poor at this end. So much so that i've disabled the video.

I've gone for a high quality version of the film and dumped the HD version. The playback was simply too unreliable. View the new version here.

YouTube - THE WAY (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ub4NtiFg5zQ)

Ken Campbell
January 13th, 2009, 02:45 AM
Hi David, great quality stuff there! You could try putting it on Vimeo in HD to see if playback is better there. FYI, the HQ version played back flawlessly on my 1.5 year old E6600 system. Of course I still have my screen tear problem but it doesn't seem to bother me when watching other people's stuff, but still drives me out of my friggin' mind on my stuff!

David Carter
January 13th, 2009, 02:48 AM
Hey Ken, I will visit Vimeo with this one and see how it goes there. You Tube's first port of call as it's got such a huge number of hits. Small issues do drive you mad on things like this, it's such a long process to see if it actually works. Thanks for the feeback. Check it out fiolks, oh and rate me on you tube. Need to get the hits up now!