Large Files To Youtube

[allenlondon]

Is it possible to upload an hour-long film to YouTube, or am I on a hiding to nothing?

Ta

Allen

[jno]

no idea - but if you want to watch the full three-hour, widescreen film of El Cid, here it is



But how long it takes to upload something like that I couldn't say

[Buenchico]

I find myself watching some very strange things on Youtube and frequently encounter professionally-produced wedding videos from countries like Turkey where, rather than carefully editing the video content as videographers would normally do in this country, the entire day's proceedings (from the bride donning her dress in the morning to the late night celebrations after the wedding) are included in the videos. Such videos are typically seven or eight hour's long, and sometimes even longer!

So, in principle, you should have no problems uploading a one-hour long video to Youtube. The only problem might be with your broadband speed; if you've got a slow connection it could take ages for the upload to complete. (Broadband connections are usually 'asymmetric', which means that download and upload speeds aren't the same. With an ADSL connection, you might get 10 Mbps as your download speed but only 1 Mbps as your upload speed. With a fibre connection it's fairly common to have an upload speed of 10 Mbps, irrespective of how fast your download speed is).

[allenlondon]

Thanks Chris.

I have Virgin cable, so reputedly fast, but I’ll check.

A

[Buenchico]

Virgin's upload speeds are among the slowest among fibre service providers.

Quote: "The average upload speed on Virgin Media's 54Mbps deal is 3.04Mbps (advertised as 3Mbps), and 5.99Mbps (advertised as 6Mbps) on the 108Mbps package. Even on the 362Mb package you’ll only get upload speeds averaging 20.6Mbps (advertised as 21Mbps)."

Source: https://www.cable.co.uk/broadband/providers/virgin-media-broadband/reviews/

[allenlondon]

Bit puzzled, Chris.

The final two paras of that report read:

Virgin Media is the leader in the UK when it comes to broadband speeds. BT is working on delivering its Ultrafast fibre connections with speeds up to 314Mb – but when this will be widely available, we don’t know – at the start of 2020 it's still looking a long way off till widely available.

Virgin's broadband is not only fast, it's also the most reliable. Basically, then, it's the best broadband money can buy. Whether it's right for you will come down to whether you need or want all that speed, and of course whether or not you can get it where you live.


So have I got fast broadband, or not?

A

[Buenchico]

As I stated above, Allen, all domestic broadband connections are 'asymmetric'. (i.e. the upload speed is slower than the download one). That makes absolute sense as, for example, apart from uploading a very small amount of data when I click on the 'Answer Now' button in this thread (or when, say, I'm sending an email), I, and almost very other internet user, very rarely need to upload data.

Most domestic fibre-based internet connections use BT Openreach's cables, where (irrespective of download speeds) the upload speed is usually fixed at 10 Mbps for the majority of 'budget' services or occasionally at 20 Mbps for 'premium' services. However Virgin Media operates its own fibre-optic cable network and chooses to weight the asymmetry in its services in line with the figures I've quoted above.

If your next door neighbour has a broadband connection advertised as offering 20 Mbps through Openreach's cables, and you've got a 54 Mbps service through Virgin's own cables, you'll have a DOWNLOAD speed that's nearly three times as fast as your neighbour gets. However he'll be getting OpenReach's standard UPLOAD speed of 10 Mbps, whereas you'll only be getting 3 Mbps through Virgin's cables, so it will be your neighbour who has the three-times advantage in that respect. So your neighbour will be able to upload files to YouTube at roughly three times the speed that you can, even though he's nominally got a much slower broadband connection.

[BTW: I assume, from your question about YouTube that you managed to work out how to upload a video, so that your wife can view it in hospital].

[barry1010]

My upload speed on Virgin is a miserable 21Mbps, 10% of my download speed

[Buenchico]

^^^ Yup, that's totally consistent with the information in my post at 1940, Barry. (Upload speeds are largely irrelevant for people who don't, for example, post large videos on Youtube but they can be important for some).

[jno]

you can check your speeds here

https://www.speedcheck.org/

[allenlondon]

Test shows download 55, upload 3.

I have no trouble uploading to Youtube.

It’s when it GETS there it’s the problem. It either takes for ever processing, then gives up, or abandons processing immediately.

I shall give up. If her WiFi is very dodgy, she probably couldn’t see an hour-long film without losing the signal!

[murraymints]

why don't you save/download films from the iplayer ? go straight onto tablet and easy to playback

[barry1010]

Murray, the film is on his pc, he wants to upload it to YouTube so others can watch it

[Naheed]

Yes, you can upload a video of several hours to Youtube. Mostly, the new user is allowed to upload only a video of 15 minutes maximum. However, when you verified your account you can upload videos up to 20 Gb a week.

[allenlondon]

Thanks Naheed. I’ve been registered for about 10 years.

My files UPLOAD ok, but then all crash during the next ‘processing’ phase.

[barry1010]

Do you get an error message, Allen? If so, what does it say?
What format are your videos in?

[Old_Geezer]

Must be. Sure I've seen 8 hour long ones there.

[allenlondon]

Ordinary mp4, barry.

Mind you, I was dragging an mp3 file into iMovie, sticking a still image on, and exporting as MP4. Seems the only way to get an hour-long mp3 to you tube.