Ken Middleton
Well-known member
I'm sure lots of you have found that some videos just won't play in high quality on YouTube. You know that it is capable of playing in high quality because if you type &fmt=18 after the address, you get glorious stereo and a much clearer video. But, of course, that doesn't work next time you play it.
I found this with my latest video (A Bluegrass Reel). It was about 2 minutes long. I uploaded it about 10 times changing the quality settings and giving it a different file name each time. I set it to private.
Even when I had several uploaded on my channel with different file names and different sizes they would not play in high quality. I have a stereo mic and it sounds quite poor in mono. Also, I record the video on just a regular still camera and I need the quality to be as good as possible.
I solved the problem by making the video twice as long. I actually played the sound track again and added a short film. It worked fine. Almost as soon as the video was uploaded it went to high quality.
I hope this works for you. Please let me know if it does.
KEN
I found this with my latest video (A Bluegrass Reel). It was about 2 minutes long. I uploaded it about 10 times changing the quality settings and giving it a different file name each time. I set it to private.
Even when I had several uploaded on my channel with different file names and different sizes they would not play in high quality. I have a stereo mic and it sounds quite poor in mono. Also, I record the video on just a regular still camera and I need the quality to be as good as possible.
I solved the problem by making the video twice as long. I actually played the sound track again and added a short film. It worked fine. Almost as soon as the video was uploaded it went to high quality.
I hope this works for you. Please let me know if it does.
KEN