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YouTube Timmy Google employee  
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(3 users)  More options Dec 18 2008, 5:30 pm
From: YouTube Timmy
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:30:42 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Dec 18 2008 5:30 pm
Subject: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
We have two developments that we would like to share with you: the
expansion of our HD player and a test of three new landing pages
designed to help you find the news, music and movies on YouTube that
matter most to you.

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** HD on YouTube **

Starting today, if you click the "watch in HD" option below any HD-
enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen. As
part of this launch, we have created an HD Videos area where you can
browse videos uploaded in the HD format: http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mphd&t=a&c=0&l=&b=0

In anticipation of your questions – including how to encode your
videos to take advantage of this new feature and how to avoid the
dreaded "windowboxing" – we have prepared an FAQ in the Help Center:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&top...

Hopefully you'll find any technical information you need there, but
feel free to post follow-up questions here or on the YouTube Blog:
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=--fMNA_lkPM

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** New Video Landing Pages **

News, music and movies are huge categories on YouTube and as a result
it can sometimes be tough to find exactly what you're hoping to watch.
In a bid to smooth your path to the perfect video, we are testing
three new video landing pages: http://www.youtube.com/news,
http://www.youtube.com/music, and http://www.youtube.com/movies.

The news page will be populated with breaking stories from around the
world as well as news drawn from the Google News service; music will
feature rising videos alongside playlists dedicated to different
genres; movies will showcase some of the most popular short and full-
length movies on YouTube today. We'll keep a close eye on how these
pages perform with a view to rolling them out in other categories.

With these developments we are hoping to improve your viewing
experience and make it easier to find the content you want to watch.
Leave a comment here and let us know what you think…

Happy holidays and, as always, have fun watching!
The YouTube Team


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whizz4u  
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(2 users)  More options Dec 18 2008, 8:21 pm
From: whizz4u
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:21:02 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Dec 18 2008 8:21 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Awesome stuff YouTube. Here are some more suggestions:

-Has the YouTube "Quick Capture" feature been updated so people can
record their video in widescreen 16:9 format? If it hasn't then it
should. Detect if the webcam supports 16:9 then record in this mode
and if the webcam doesn't support 16:9 then record in non-widescreen.

-Make videos HD 1080p because currently HD videos are only 720p.

-Upgrade YouTube streams to use the 16:9 widescreen player.


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(1 user)  More options Dec 19 2008, 1:43 am
From: amaudy
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:43:42 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Dec 19 2008 1:43 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
What is different with "watch in high quality" before?

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ThunderDonkey  
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(1 user)  More options Dec 19 2008, 7:33 am
From: ThunderDonkey
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:33:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
I like the quality in the "High quality" more. It just plays it in
High quality with a higher resolution... Please also make an option
between HD and the previous High Quality settings. One of the reasons
is that not every internet system can handle that much bandwidth.
(internet of other people's computer in our network is very slow for
example), I asked more people and they had a similar case.

Anyway, wow pretty nice!
(BTW: another thing, first time I streamed the "where the hell is
matt?" video, it ran with an framerate of 1 per second. After
refreshing after few minutes it was normal framerate, just so you know
it. :).  )


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(1 user)  More options Dec 20 2008, 12:23 am
From: mattjsrules
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:23:46 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Dec 20 2008 12:23 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
I think videos that have the Watch in HD option should also have a
watch in High Quality option because some computers can't candle HD
videos, but can handle High Quality Videos.
Thanks this would be very good if this was added

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FlippyCat  
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 More options Dec 20 2008, 12:43 pm
From: FlippyCat
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:43:32 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Dec 20 2008 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Please make High Quality an option on HD videos.
For those unable to watch HD this is a downgrade.

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snoboarder8232  
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 More options Dec 20 2008, 12:58 pm
From: snoboarder8232
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:58:19 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Dec 20 2008 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Please make an option to "Always play HD video when it's available",
or force the player to play HD when it's available under the "Always
play higher-quality video when it's available" option.

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ThunderDonkey  
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 More options Dec 20 2008, 5:10 pm
From: ThunderDonkey
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:10:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Dec 20 2008 5:10 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
I see some good suggestions, We'd really appriciate it if you make the
2 suggestions:
 - Option that if a HD video also has option for High Quality.
 - Always play HD video when avaible.

Arguments:
 - Not all computers and connection can handle HD, most of them can
handle High Quality
 - Quite logical if there's also an option for "Always play in High
Quality if avaible".

Hope You can work something out with this. :D


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 More options Dec 26 2008, 12:15 am
From: dotchrisproductions
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:15:10 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Dec 26 2008 12:15 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
I do not like the fact that everything gets pushed down and its not
aligned right when viewing videos in HD. I think you guys should have
worked on a new page design before adding HD. This way, the HD will
work more with the new page design.

Good job though, but the design of the site still despreatly needs
help

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IWLProductions  
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 More options Jan 5, 9:45 pm
From: IWLProductions
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:45:13 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Jan 5 2009 9:45 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Here's the thing YouTube.I can't upload videos. And that is because
the audio becomes out of sync in HD. I have noticed it happens when
there is pure black on the screen - maybe that has something to do
with it. Or some other bug.

The point is - this needs to be fixed. I'm not the only one. This is
happening to everyone who is using HD.
If I may direct you to:
http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/250...

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/f35...

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/c43...

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/365...

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/44b...

If you are going to offer this service at all, it should be wrinkle
free. I believe it would be in YouTube's best interest to fix this bug
ASAP in order not to lose a great deal of HD filmmakers to VIMEO. You
don't want to be the MySpace to the Facebook of VIMEO.

:) I'm just trying to help, as well as getting my videos up. PLEASE
WORK ON THIS PROBLEM!

-Justin Friesen
IWL Productions


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BIGGlittleBROTHER  
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 More options Jan 7, 12:13 pm
From: BIGGlittleBROTHER
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:13:55 -0800 (PST)
Local: Wed, Jan 7 2009 12:13 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Hi Justin,

I had the same problems with the out of sync audio in HD on youtube.
If you are using a Mac, then I've solved the problem. Check out my
HowTo video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=230AOa-kBDY

The solution is in still producing a quicktime movie (*.mov) using
MPEG4 encoding and AAC audio at 44.1kb/sec. My YouTube video makes it
clear. Hope this helps... take care.

Michael


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BattlefieldDoktor  
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 More options Jan 8, 9:41 am
From: BattlefieldDoktor
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:41:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Jan 8 2009 9:41 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
I like the new HD view but I've noticed already a bug. When you're
using Dolby instead of MPEG for the audio then you will only hear
weird beeps in the video (only at the HD view ... at the standard view
and the High Quality view (&fmt=18) everything's alright). Please also
support the same audio codecs for HD. Thank you!

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 More options Jan 13, 2:53 am
From: 61twin
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:53:41 -0800 (PST)
Local: Tues, Jan 13 2009 2:53 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
When I try to watch in HD, I basically get a glorified slideshow.
YouTube never manages to load the video.....I get the audio just fine,
which entertains me as I get various screenshots rather than a moving
video.

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 More options Jan 14, 4:55 am
From: linefoot
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:55:10 -0800 (PST)
Local: Wed, Jan 14 2009 4:55 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Yes, please make High Quality an option for HD videos, My videos are
HD but sadly the Normal Quality looks absolutely dismal for HD
uploads.. You really should address that as well, please make the
encoder for HD uploads do a better job on the Normal Quality..

So better "normal quality" for HD uploads AND/OR a "high quality"
viewing option in addition to the "normal" and "HD" for HD uploads.

One alternative to these solutions is to just do away with the
"normal" option on HD uploads and only have "high quality" or "HD" for
those vids.. People uploading in HD obviously want their vids to look
good, but what many viewers see is the horrible "normal" quality which
looks 100 times worse on the HD vids than on regular 'lower quality'
uploads.

I would love if this dreadful "normal" was not even possible on my
vids.. HQ or HD should be the 2 options on HD uploads.

Finally, switching video quality SHOULD restart the video. Most videos
are not hours long, but rather minutes. Changing quality a few seconds
into the video and having it pick up where it left off really destroys
the continuity of many short films. It is not enough that we must beg
viewers to watch in HD but now we must beg them to restart the video
from the beginning after switching to HD? I am sure that I'm not alone
in wanting people to view my entire video the way it was meant to be
viewed, not just the last half.

Having it so that if you are more than 5 minutes into the video it
will pick up where you left off would be alright I guess.

Your example of being halfway through an hour long video really
doesn't make much sense.. Most of YT's content is less than 10
minutes, and besides; who gets halfway through an hour long show and
THEN decides to switch to high quality? Basing a change on that sort
of extreme minority viewing experience when said change will be bad
for the vast majority of YT content just seems silly to me.

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 More options Jan 15, 12:15 am
From: appcookie
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:15:21 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Jan 15 2009 12:15 am
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
+1
Agreed! I HATE the normal quality, makes it horrible compared to
actually uploading in normal quality. High quality/HD ONLY!

That would pwn.

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wuergdenlurch  
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 More options Jan 15, 7:21 pm
From: wuergdenlurch
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:21:23 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Jan 15 2009 7:21 pm
Subject: Re: Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages
Thanks to everybody at Youtube for pushing movie quality from pretty
poor to amazing good.
After creating the divx it´just the simple upload and you´re done -
quality really rockz now.

- a line for the info wich cam was used would be nice so you could
easier search for videos taken by certain cam


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