[luckystrike]

Great so you spend sum time working on a music vid and whoops you tube converts the audio to MONO (gonna hold myself back here) thats just plain imbaselic.... Ya if you add the extention &fmt=18 to the vid url it will then play in stereo but who is gonna do that. Theres no way that you can make an accurate representation of a tune clearly mixed for stereo in MONO. So i Thought id try to compensate by adding a annotation with the url to the full stero vid with the affor mentioned extention - but wouldnt you know it you tube just reverts the link back to its original so it does absolutely nothing

Does anybody know a way around this or does no one at you tube actually play music.

Sry for the semi rant but this really really pi&&es me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for any advice

Aryn

PS - heres the link for the vid in stereo using the extention CLICK HERE

This post has been edited by luckystrike: 21 October 2008 - 04:11 PM

[igorski]

Well YouTube is a video streaming service, so it tries to make the files as compact as possible for a fast viewing experience without pauses for rebuffering.

However, YouTube offers a 'auto quality adjust' depending on the speed of the user's current internet connection and decides which version of the files it will open. The higher quality FLV's (and apparantly with stereo) or the minimized versions. People with a YouTube account can override these settings in their preferences panel if they wish.

To be honest, there's something dead wrong with YouTube's auto-adjuster, at work the internet is no slouch at 600 Kbyte/s download but it chooses to run vids in low quality, at home I can get a booming 8000 Kbyte/s (fibre-glass) and it will run at the high quality, altough a connection of 200 Kbyte/sec would suffice (according to my mad calculations).

Just something you have to accept. Hey, it's a free service anyways, don't complain. You could add this in the video's notes though if you wish your viewers should hear it the way it was intented to sound (and I totally understand why you'd want this in the first place).