Oct 10

Written by: George Ou
10/10/2008 12:16 AM

Thanks to a great tip from Cinetech, I know how to embed high quality videos from YouTube using this code generator, or this manual method.

What this means is that instead of those tiny blotchy 320x240 320 Kbps bitrate videos from standard quality YouTuge, you can now get less blotchy and a little higher quality from YouTube videos at 640 Kbps bitrate.  I've embedded a video above scaled up to 590 pixels wide by 478 pixels high to make it show up bigger.

For anyone who wants to create some decent quality video, YouTube will let you switch to free director mode which removes the 10 minute time limit Google put the 10 minute time limit back in unfortunately. You can also use their new beta uploader up upload files up to 1 GB size.  To get optimum high-quality uploads, I would recommend uploading at 1280 Kbps because YouTube will convert it down to 640 Kbps so you want a better source.

 

Now if you REALLY want some higher quality video, you go to Vimeo and upload 720p content at 3 Mbps.  I suspect that Vimeo converts it to 1.2 Mbps video which they will market as "HD" video but if you've been following my old blogs, you'll know that low bitrate HD isn't actually High Definition in quality.  The actual quality is lower than DVD but Vimeo video looks great at 640 pixels wide and it's way better than YouTube or most of the other video sites.  The down side is that you have to upload 3 Mbps content which is very slow unless you're lucky enough to have something like Verizon's 20/20 FiOS service.

Gotland Ring from Anders Bäckman on Vimeo.

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