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What YouTube settings get best quality for low/high and HD playback?

We upload our videos to youtube as mp4, 720p, 2048kbps, and they look stunning when set for HD playback. However, when playing back at regular quality, or embedded, they look terrible. Are there settings that looks great in HD and still looks good at "normal" and embedded quality?
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bugsy | 3 years, 4 months ago
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journik | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Youtube automatically uber compresses your video beyond your own compression. There IS a WATCH IN HIRES link BUT that is still lower than your quality... AND the only way to trigger that option is to upload at atleast 640x480 res. Besides... any higher quality.. and it wouldn't stream. Try veoh... for the highres vid.. and put your lowest vid with a link to veoh in your youtube description.

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pvera | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

BTW, thanks for mentioning veoh, I had not heard from them before.

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pvera | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

Youtube now allows you to upload 720p and above, but it still compresses it even if you feed it to them as h.264. And it will stream, but even in HD it looks like crap when compared to Vimeo. It looks as if Vimeo doesn't reprocess HD video that arrives as h.264 because it looks almost identical to my local copy.

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pvera | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Embedding high quality only works on videos that you embed, people that run into your videos through Youtube will still see them at the really lousy low resolution unless they change their preferences.

I am uploading to Youtube as 720p60 and it looks so-so at 720p, and horrible at anything lower. The same video in Vimeo looks spectacular at 720p, and really really nice at the standard resolution.

I am starting to suspect that the problem is Google messing with the file because it is 60p instead of 30p. I'll be posting samples to my youtube and vimeo accounts to see if I maybe I need to stop using 60p:

http://youtube.com/user/pvera
http://vimeo.com/insomniac

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