do you seriously have to try to be contrary about everything

Originally posted by cpubasic13

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Now, if you want to complain about Youtube (besides the interface), try uploading a video. Sometimes you get lucky and it works first try; others you sit there waiting for the entire file to upload before it tells you it can't read the video format.

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I've never once had this happen to me, and I've used many formats.

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"It hasn't happened to me" doesn't mean "It never happens, your argument is invalid".

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And you do this again and again until you finally find a format combo that it accepts and your encoder can handle and the result isn't utter garbage and it's not over the size limit and the sound stays synchronized.

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If you aren't using Xvid you have issues already. And if you have troubles keeping a video under 1GB then you really have issues.

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"You're wrong because you're not using my favourite codec." Anyway:
$ ffmpeg -i mk64-lightspeed.ogv -vcodec xvid foo.avi
[...]
Unknown encoder 'xvid'
(and yes I checked the available format list for anything that might be xvid under another name)
The raw video I just uploaded was 158MB, at 640x480, just under 5 minutes. You don't think a longer/higher-resolution video might have some trouble staying under 1GB?

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Then you go to view the video and discover all the info you entered was not saved.

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Never had this happen to me, and when it does, it says it couldn't save info WHILE I'm uploading.

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"Never happened to me, therefore never happens."

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Then you discover that the pause function is mostly useless as it hides all current annotations when it triggers, meaning any message you wanted to show would have to be added into the video before uploading, which kinda defeats the point.

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And you are completely wrong here. Pausing keeps whatever annotation is up.

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Nope. Add a note, then a pause. As soon as it pauses, the note disappears. Doesn't matter the order, length etc. I just did this yesterday and a friend confirmed it does not work. Possibly this is a bug that doesn't happen every time, but that's another case of "never seen it, never happens".

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Then odds are your video quickly gets deleted because the half of a quiet, muffled song you had in the background encoded at 128kbps and then again at 96kbps, mixed in with the loud voices and sound effects, was considered a copyright violation.

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Ugh not this shit again. First of all, if your sound is muffled it is due to you compressing the audio. When compressing a video always leave the audio uncompressed, as it will always sound like shit when compressing.

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There are going to be at least two passes for most songs:

• The song being encoded as MP3 in the first place.
• If you want to do any editing, the result has to be compressed again, unless you want raw PCM audio in your video file (have fun keeping that under 1GB).
  
• Youtube encoding to its own format.

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Two, you won't get a copyright violation simply due to background noise and if you do, you can dispute it. Even then, if you upload something with a copyrighted song, guess what? You get an ad stating where to buy the song. OH MAN THAT IS SO EVIL OF YOUTUBE!

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Do you have any idea how many videos have been outright removed because of exactly what I described? No ad, no chance to dispute, it's just deleted.

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Or because the camera passed by a can of Coke at one point. Or because some company made a completely false accusation.

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Paranoid a bit, are we?

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Both have happened.

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(My favourite was the music was a copyright infringement - on a video with no sound at all.)

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The users always have control over the content on YouTube, and they can report anything as anybody.

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So shouldn't those reports be reviewed for accuracy before acting on them?

Do you work for Youtube/Google by any chance?

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