Product Update: Now Encoding at 700 KBPS
Today, I’m happy to announce an improvement that will make uploading a lot nicer. In fact, if you’ve uploaded anything new in the past few days you should have noticed a difference. No, we’re not automatically replacing the people in your videos with the cast of Gray’s Anatomy. That’s too expensive.
Instead we’ve given our transcoders a major kick: we’re now transcoding user uploads to 700kpbs! That’s up from 300 kpbs in the past. Transcoders are those robots that diligently turn your video file into flash format. We also boosted the capacity of our uploader. This means better and faster uploads from start to finish. Of course, this doesn’t re-encode anything you’ve already uploaded; this is for new uploads only. As always, the final quality depends on the original video file. So keep your bitrate high, we’re ready for it.
So, here’s Yahoo! Video by the numbers: a 16:9 aspect ratio, 150 mb uploads, and 700 kpbs transcoding. We’re closing in on 100% awesome.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
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[…] Product Update: Now Encoding at 700 KBPS : …we’ve given our transcoders a major kick: we’re now transcoding user uploads to 700kpbs! That’s up from 300 kpbs in the past. Transcoders are those robots that diligently turn your video file into flash format. We also boosted the capacity of our uploader. This means better and faster uploads from start to finish. Of course, this doesn’t re-encode anything you’ve already uploaded; this is for new uploads only. As always, the final quality depends on the original video file. So keep your bitrate high, we’re ready for it. […]
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26 March 2008, 9:59 pmpraynhippie:
Well, Kent, I am happy for my fellow yahooers,you yahooligans, but not for me. after 2 emails, no one could explain “why” my video could not be transcoded. the SYSTEM HAS CHANGED!!! i am on dial up with an old computer and last year’s logitech web cam. Amy suggestions, other than abandon all hope?
27 March 2008, 6:31 pmAdministrator:
Uploads should be a lot faster now. Are you still having trouble uploading?
28 March 2008, 6:52 pmMike Hedge:
aaaaaaah! awesome news!!! are you guys gonna update the tubemogul settings? seems like it’s not working
Mike
31 March 2008, 9:50 amKevin:
16:9 is great, but we’ve uploaded a widescreen video twice now… and the transcoding process smooshes it down to 4:3. Help! Is there a special step to ensure 16:9?? Thanks.
7 April 2008, 3:01 pmAdministrator:
Hey Kevin,
Can you include a link to the video? I’d like to check out what’s going on with it. There’s no special step, just make sure the video you upload doesn’t include any masking (i.e. letter-box bars).
Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
7 April 2008, 5:32 pmTrey:
Kent,
Can you give me specs on what format for final video quality works best for yahoo video? I am also having a problem uploading 16:9 content and it gets converted to 4:3. Thanks for your help.
Trey
17 April 2008, 4:00 pm