hidehead - Posted - 02/05/2012:  10:10:40

When you put a video on YouTube, what program do you use to transfer it from your Droid to computer.  The mp4 file shows up on the computer from the Droid but it won't play it.  We tried a quick upload directly from the Droid to YouTube, but it only uploaded about 2% in about an hour.  Please help!

larry

gradelyduck - Posted - 02/05/2012:  10:28:48

R2D2...?

Edited by - gradelyduck on 02/05/2012 10:30:05

airoldi - Posted - 02/05/2012:  11:41:09

Not sure what type of computer you're using, but MP4 is not a standard format the Microsoft Movie Maker supports.

Have you tried uploading the MP4 file (which doesn't play on your computer) to You Tube?  It might be that simple (make sure it really is the movie, file, should be large)

If you want to play this video on your computer you'll need to make sure you have a video player that supports it (look up "File Type Association" in help)

If you can't get it to owork, I'd contact you tube about this, they support this type of issue here:  support.google.com/youtube/bin...pe=avsync

Good luck,

Edited by - airoldi on 02/05/2012 11:43:38

hidehead - Posted - 02/06/2012:  10:12:19

We were down loading to a lap top, and that was going to take several hours to upload to youtube.  We tried our desk top pc and it uploaded a 3 min. clip in about 40 minutes.  Maybe that is as fast as we will be able to upload to YouTube.  How long does it take you all to upload a video clip?

larry

pearcemusic - Posted - 02/06/2012:  12:02:43

I usually downsize my videos to 320X240 before uploading to youtube (for example: 1/4 the size of a 640X480 video).

I can upload 5-6 clips of 5-13 minutes each in less than a half hour (just did this a week or 2 ago).

I use a free program called AnyVideoConverter ... I use standard codecs in the parameter choices (mp4, mp3 for audio) and moderately low quality re: compression, frame rates, data rate, etc.

huge files necessarily take long times to transfer ... especially web uploads, which are known for taking a long time.

rtonkins - Posted - 02/06/2012:  15:03:57

The problem may not be the video's at all.  Many internet provider upload speeds are significantly slower than download speed.  Might be worth looking into.

seanray - Posted - 02/07/2012:  06:11:21

40 minutes is a whopper even if it's compressed fairly small. I would check the size of the video and if it's several hundred megs then I would transcode and resize it before uploading to youtube. 16:9 aspect ratio looks best on youtube so a good starting size is 640x360. The compression can vary quite a bit so it's best to experiment with it until you find a good balance between file size and picture quality.