[MEncoder-users] Video for YouTube, getting extremely low quality movies

[James Hastings-Trew]

Apple7777 wrote:
> Michael Rozdoba <mroz <at> ukgateway.net> writes:
>
>   
>> Isn't it the case that YouTube reencode everything they receive to
>> 250kbps 320x240 using the flash6 adopted Sorensen mpeg4 asp codec?
>>
>> In which case doesn't it make sense to give them the best quality they
>> will allow to be uploaded, to avoid garbage being mangled into worse
>> garbage? Aiui, the only upload restrictions are 100MB size limit.
>>
>>     
>
> No, FLV1 movies under 350 Kbps will never be re-encoded.
>   
Sure they will - they still have to stick their youtube bug on it.