Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:46:29 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: Gary Aitken <ah@dreamchaser.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: convert for use on youtube Message-ID: <C5D5C65260E3F753EAF8CF11@[192.168.1.50]> In-Reply-To: <540947A4.2030506@dreamchaser.org> References: <54073D3E.9080808@dreamchaser.org> <540756C3.1060600@privatdemail.net> <5407FEDA.1010206@dreamchaser.org> <20140904131550.7fd40f1e.freebsd@edvax.de> <540947A4.2030506@dreamchaser.org>
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--As of September 4, 2014 11:18:28 PM -0600, Gary Aitken is alleged to have said: > Thanks. > I created different .webm files with vp8 and vorbis and uploaded them, > but they didn't play (over a period of several hours). > However, some hours later they do play; apparently there's some magic > done to them *after* all of the upload processing is supposedly done. > Or at least that's what it appears like. > > An uploaded big .mov file plays right away; in what form it's fed to the > browser is not at all clear to me. However, this might all be a feature > of time of day and the youtube load. Is there an easy way to tell what > the content being served to the browser actually is? --As for the rest, it is mine. Completely anecdotal, but I occasionally download videos from YouTube for later viewing, and I get .mp4 (MPEG-4: H.264) files - which is probably what's in the .mov container as well. (.mov is another one of those container formats that can have a lot of things, but these days I believe the 'default' is H.264.) YouTube is probably saving them into some temp storage and then converting them at their leisure, would be my guess. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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