Video up load to photobucket

[steve24944]

I have a new I phone and was able to download the camera onto my PC.  I am trying to upload a video to photobucket so I can post it here.  The file gets to 90% then the wagon wheel just spins, stuck at 90%.  Has been downloading for 20 minutes.  Am I doing something wrong ?   Anybody have download advice ?

Steve

 

 

[MikeF90]

I have a free Photobucket account and have noticed that over the last year or so the service has become really, really slow and buggy.  The 'minders' don't mind - an outage was posted for yesterday but people's uploads are still failing intermittently today. Posting on the PB forum doesn't seem to get much official help. Situation Normal for the New Photobucket.

I tried a 9MB .avi file upload from my computer and was 'successful', but after the usual delay the thumbnail states the file isn't viewable. I went to the Help page that listed the acceptable 'upload options' and found that all videos are converted to .mp4 format.  Moral is to 'plan ahead' - convert to .mp4 first if necessary. 

[steve24944]

Thanks for the reply.   I will check on mp4 file - dont really know what that is, see if I can educate myself.   Maybe try again later.

Steve

 

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MikeF90

Moral is to 'plan ahead' - convert to .mp4 first if necessary.

Better moral is to plan ahead - use or convert your file to a format that photobucket will convert correctly to its favored version of .mp4.  I'd strongly recommend starting with the preferred settings recommended by YouTube if you have a compelling reason to post video to Photobucket.

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steve24944

I will check on mp4 file - dont really know what that is ...

.mp4 is not so much a 'file' as it is a container format -- in the same way that .avi is Microsoft's answer to Apple's MOV format.  A major reason .mp4 is a 'preferred standard' is that (like .avi) it is relatively lossless, meaning that there is little irrecoverable compression of the video and audio information.

The actual 'quality' of the video is much more determined by the quality of the 'codec' (the software that actually encodes and decodes the information streamed in a given container format) and you might want to read up on those things, too.

My personal opinion, based in the world as it was before lazy engineers started treating bandwidth and storage as too cheap to meter, is that video should be put up on public sites like Youtube and Photobucket in the most compressed form possible, with a link provided to a high-resolution version (or to contact information for the original poster, to obtain one) only if the viewer needs it.  (And compared to other desirable features of streaming video, like motion vector steering during encoding, most viewers don't really need it...)

YMMV, of course.