YouTube Uploading Issues

[cold.nut]

Guys I have been making some raiding videos for my guild on World of Warcraft and have been having some youtube upload issues. I edit my videos and compress them into the file formats recommended by youtube (h.264). I have file sizes ranging anywhere from 104mb - 216mb videos and they don't seem to upload. The progress bar says 100% but it never finalizes the upload. Any thoughts?

[Jolly-Swagman]

Are they under 10mins in size if they are over 10mins they will get rejected

[cold.nut]

nah, they are only like 3 minutes

[ppe1700]

Sounds like a connection issue. What is acting as a firewall in your network?
If you can turn off any firewall as a test and retry and post back?
Finally, what is your upload speed? Could you run a speed test and let us know? This would give us some idea of how long you should be expecting to wait for the upload to complete.
One last thing, are you connected to your network wired or wirelessly? And what internet browser are you using?

Cheers!

[cold.nut]

I have been getting into video editing for my guild on world of warcraft. I record our raids and I want to post them on youtube. To edit the videos I use Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, after which I export my file to a H.264 / 1280x720 video. My file sizes do not exceed 2gb and my videos are no longer than 7 minutes long. When I upload my videos to you tube, my progress bar uploads very quickly but it stays under processing. I tried to upload a 106mb file and it never uploaded, I just tried a 26mb file and it uploaded. If my raid videos take anywhere from 3-8 minutes long usually, how can I upload these videos when their file size will be around 100-250mb size? I thought youtube's only limits are 10 min. and or 2gb.

BTW - I am using Mozilla Firefox v.3.5.7 and I use AVG firewall etc.. I have tried disabling Firewall and Linkscanner, I have tried using IE (No Addons) etc.... Nothing is working!

Help appreciated everyone!

--Thats the post I posted on youtubes community support forums, that should help you guys

[ppe1700]

Without letting us know your upload speed it is hard to tell you any more information than we already have. Simply copying and pasting from another post isnt enough.

If you have a 26MB file and your upload speed is 300kb/s this would take 11.5 minutes roughly to transfer to youtube.

If you have a 250mb file as you say and the line speed is the same then you are looking at 112 minutes which is almost 2 hours. As I was saying previously there could be a time out which is closing your connection to youtube.
What are you using as a router? Does this have a firewall? TCP and UDP ports have time outs but these shouldnt close unless there is no traffic flowing. Unless may be you are exceeding the nat translation limit on your router... You can see I'm just pulling at ideas. Tell us more about your network and we can probably get to the bottom of it.

I upload files that are 10 minutes long and almost 2gb on my DSL connection. I leave these queued up and going over night without problems. I used to have issues with a cheaper router. What you can try is re-boot your router, then immediately log into you tube and leave the file uploading overnight when no one else is using the internet.

[dgb303]

I'd try another format - mp4 perhaps? Try another browser as well. My friend was having the same sort of issues with his uploads on youtube.

[ppe1700]

Sooo... Fixed?