Windows 7 - YouTube won't properly upload my vids!

Here's the deal, the video gets uploaded, it takes the two centuries it needs to upload and everything but when I click to watch it, the video is just a few seconds in length, a 15 minutes vid gets uploaded as a 34 seconds vid, even though it shows it's a 15 min vid when it's first loading. I've tried to upload other vids I have encoded with similar settings just to get the same result. This is getting extremely frustrating .

Here's some info about the video I'm trying to upload

Video

Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 14mn 35s
Bit rate : 2 272 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 22.5 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.037
Stream size : 237 MiB (90%)
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=1 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=25.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio

Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 14mn 35s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 287 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 26.7 MiB (10%)

Edit: I've just uploaded a vid with pretty much the exact same settings as the ones described above and it uploaded just fine, honestly, I don't get it YouTube.

Here's the settings of the vid I've just uploaded

Video

Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 5mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 289 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.155
Stream size : 155 MiB (96%)

Audio

Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 5mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 318 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.83 MiB (4%)

The only differences between the two are the profile (High@L4.0 vs High@L 3.1) and the number of ReFrames (2 vs 1 frame) as far as the video is concerned.

If I remember correctly, the High profile @L 3.1 is much more popular and more regularly used when encoding video than 4.0 or higher. ReFrames shouldn't really matter, but then again, it IS YouTube and Google we're talking about here, so who knows. Have you tried contacting them for help as well?

I posted on their help forums just now but I'm still awaiting for any replies.

Here's the link to it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...022ab1d5&hl=en

Edit: I converted the file from MP4 to MOV and now the video plays fine, weird, I thought YouTube liked MP4 files.

YouTube only "likes" the actual video streams, but I guess containers also count. MP4 is a versatile container that can hold either audio or video, or, of course, both, and then some more. Next time you mux your files always use MOV.

I still don't get it though, as YouTube clearly recommends using the MP4 container in one of their helping articles. But, yeah, MOV it is.

Hi there
Glad you fixed the problem -- but maybe it's better NOT to put stuff on to You Tube / facebook etc etc,
Mind you I'm over 50 so what would I know about this stuff anyway --I'm I having enough trouble going down escalators on the London Underground system where almost EVERYBODY is staring into Mobile phone screens and totally not looking where they are going.

I'm sure if i were really nasty I could have stamped on loads of expensive Iphones as people bang into me and then say sorry when their expensive Iphone clatters on the floor.

Cheers
jimbo