so even with that profile, 1280x720 and 7-8 mbps bitrate, you still get HQ instead of HD sometimes ?
with the profile I have - not anymore . . . at least, it continues to currently work. The older profile I had was hit-or-miss . . . youtube seems to change this processing requirements occasionally, and doesn't let the community know . . . then everyone goes through a trial and error process to figure out what works again.
But, my current MovieMaker profile
does work for HD links.
Ok, maybe I missed the point of the article.
To me, all it proves is that Youtube has a higher compression rate than blip.tv.
I didn't get why he encoded the video as h.264 in the flv container. Doesn't all video sharing sites re-encode your videos after you upload them? Surely you're not watching the same video as you uploaded in your browser...?
What am I missing?
youtube has a decen compression rating . . . but only with HD/HQ vids . . . standard vids are still tripe.
The only thing that youtube has over other sites - one, no limitations on subject matter (for the most part), meaning gaming vids and machinima can be posted . . . other sites don't allow certain types of vids . . . also, youtube doesn't have as strict of processing restrictions, or vid length (other sites can be quite strict with their upload limitations).
Sadly, youtube is the most flexible vid hosting site available . . . it's just a PITA occasionally.