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And speaking of YouTube…

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2 years ago
by Kevin in

Why does YouTube upgrade to HD content, allow a 2GB file upload limit and then force a 10 minute time limit?

Why would the 10 minute mark mean anything to them? It’s not the replay time, it’s file sizes they should be concerned with – assuming they are concerned about bandwidth bills. If they concerned about storage, it once again falls to the 2GB file size.

I mean, currently I can not capture my game videos in HD format and therefore I don’t upload them in HD format. I create them in standard 480p resolution (720×480). This produces about a 500MB file for a 10 minute video. But what if I want to create an 11 minute video or even a 10 minute 32 second video because the gameplay ran to the time limit of 10 minutes? Should I be forced to time shift parts of video to get it posted? Personally I don’t think so – I think Google should simply say “Your videos must be 2GB or less in size.” Guess what? The 2GB limit would force HD video to shorter than 10 minutes. But at the same time it would allow me to create an SD video that is a few seconds over the 10 minute limit.

I guess I can only see one reason what they enforce the 10 minutes limit. AD REVENUE. If you look at a new video every 10 minutes or less, then they get to display more ads in a day. This, in the end, generates more revenue for them. I can’t knock them for that I guess, but they should be able to over come that with Ajax type adds that rotate every 10 minutes.

I guess I’m just whining because I want to post slightly longer videos. But I guess if they game me a 20 minute limit, I’d complain about wanting to post a 21 minute video.

YouTube and Copyright Infringement

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2 years ago
by Kevin in ,

Ok, this one really ticked me off several months ago and I’m hacked off again by it.  I don’t do this often, but every now and again, I post a video to YouTube.  On at least two occasions, I’ve wanted to add some hard-driving music for the video.

In one instance, I did so.  I added Nickelback’s “Animals” song as a background track to my video.  It took a while, but Google finally ripped the sound completely from the video and plastered all kinds of “copyright infringement” on the thing at the same time.

I want to go on record as stating that:

  1. I am not trying to make money with these videos.
  2. I respect the artist who created the music – I did so in this case by giving the artist credit at the end and by buying the album.
  3. I’m not trying to use the music to promote one side or the other of a political argument.
  4. I’m really not even sure how to contact the people in question to ask for permission to use the song in this manner.
  5. I’m sure I couldn’t afford to pay for the rights to the song even if I could contact them. (See No. 1 above.)

So my beef is:  Why is it a crime to use songs that I hear everyday on the radio to add a bit of entertainment to my videos?  Especially if I give the people who created the song the credit for it!

So now, YouTube has this area where you can use “pre-licensed” tracks for your videos.  But there’s a problem.  If you allow YouTube to add the track, then every bit of audio in your video gets replaced with the “pre-licensed” track.  See:

So here’s my question about this “audioswap” feature:  If I own the songs in this “pre-licensed” list, can I use them in my videos where I have control of what the sound like?

The reason this is such a problem for me is that my videos contain gameplay footage and I would like to maintain the sounds of the game as well as have the music play.  In fact some of my planned videos will contain commentary by me or my friends.  I need to control what is played as audio and not simply have the entire audio replaced with a song.

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