On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 20:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/12/14, 7:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2014-07-12 10:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> archive.org preserves the original format and resolution and isn't fussy
>>> about file size. -- Andrei
>>
>> I'm not sure what problems you're having but youtube supports
>> resolutions up to 4k and there are many files on youtube that are larger
>> than the ones you're uploading.
>>
>> On the other hand, I have never upload anything to youtube so I don't
>> know the restrictions it has.
>
> I have experimented extensively last year, and archive.org was the best by far. Back then youtube would reduce the resolution and had video length restrictions. It's possible they were relaxed or lifted, but I'm not inclined to put time into researching that again. For my money archive.org works very well and I'm glad Dicebot is uploading to youtube as well.
>
> Andrei

Even bearing in mind that archive.org is so slow that a simple download of the mp4 version of a talk can talk almost 2 hours? archive.org's per-connection bandwidth limit is very unusually low.

On 2014-07-12 22:43, John Colvin wrote:

> Even bearing in mind that archive.org is so slow that a simple download
> of the mp4 version of a talk can talk almost 2 hours? archive.org's
> per-connection bandwidth limit is very unusually low.

Yeah, it takes at least an hour for me to download from archive.org. From youtube, the same video clip takes around two minutes.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg