Is there a way to upload my videos faster?
I know I asked this not long ago, but I can’t find the question anywhere. I have a video I’m trying to load on FB and on Youtube. Both of them look like they’re literally going to take hours to upload.
What can I do? (I’ll book mark this this time. I promise!)
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what is your measured upload speed and your uplink speed as promised by your ISP?
Are you hard wired into your internet or are you on wireless?
You can measure your speed at speedtest.net
surely your isp has sent you documents, contract, and username/password for your connection?
You could also call them and ask.
Check with Cox for the “UPLOAD” speed. My cable company just offered me an upgrade to 2 Mbs for a buck a month from 1Mbs. It is consistently 2.1 Mbs now.
When I signed up with my ISP, I was promised up to 7Mbps download and 768Kbps upload. It said so right in the paperwork. So it’s possible to know even before hooking up a computer.
Speedtest.net is a good way to verify that you’re getting what you’re paying for though, and unlike cable, I actually get >95% of the speed I am promised while many of my cable-connected friends are finding out with “up to” really means.
Regardless of what your contract says, Speedtest.net will probably tell you why things are taking so long.
Video is huge and most upload speeds are shit. My point and shoot camera makes files that are like 100Megs per minute. It takes me a hour to upload that on my 50 dollar a month internet connection. Suck my dick CenturyLink!
My suggestion is to run the video through something like Handbrake and convert it to mp4 before uploading. You will most likely get a smaller file size and as a result a faster upload.
Made an account but it’s “pending activation.” Thanks.
You don’t need an account for speedtest. You just push the button.
K. Checking. That will be good because my account was denied because I didn’t pass their Spam test.
K says PING 250 MS
Download speed 1.07 Mbs
Upload speed .23 Mbs.
And that means what?
That is very very very slow.
You should be about 20 times faster. That is dial up speed. Call your Internet provider.
They’ll just say, “Oh, we can upgrade you and make you 500 times faster for only $19.99 a month extra!”
That is 1990’s dial-up speed. ( Not really but. . . ) There is a BIG problem with the Inter-Web at your ranch.
If you are paying for 5Mbs download and 1Mbs upload, they owe you money. Talk only with Technical not sales.
Agree. There is something wrong with your cable.
I will @Tropical_Willie. But it’s Cox. They just suck all the way around.
I’ll call them in a second.
They’re saying the speeds are what I’m paying for.
Cox Internet Essentials is 5 Mbs download and 1 Mbs upload. My math is different than theirs.
Did you talk to technical services or sales?
So is there a technical problem? Ask technical if your cable modem is current.
I talked to technical service. She said I have the starter package at 1 Mb. They’re also sending out a tech to look things over.
how much are you paying for that?
Too fucking much. I did have Cox cable and we were paying a total of $99 for both, but we cancelled the cable. I haven’t gotten my first internet-only bill, but I think it’s $39.99. Apparently there are no other internet providers in this area.
Sorry for the language. It just pisses me off that they charge you through the nose and give crappy service trying to FORCE you to upgrade to a package that probably doesn’t actually cost the company any extra to provide. I’d drop Cox in a heartbeat if I could.
I just looked up what my provider would give me for 40$, or about 30€.
A 16mbit flatrate, plus phone land line.
@Dutchess_III If you are paying more than $33.99 (Discount from $44.99), you should be getting the 5Mbs and 1Mbs I mentioned above.
I just checked for her area in Kansas
https://store.cox.com/residential-store/shop.cox?hsi=w
For her service she should be paying $29.99, not $39.99
The next step up is $42.99
I’m not a Comcast fan (I have it because besides satellite it’s the only game in town) but you might price them out. Then go back to Cox and say, “Comcast can give me such and such. Match it or I bail.”
Thank you guys. I’ll look into it tomorrow.
You have 1Mbps down, 256Kbps up, rounded off. I had that as the lowest-tier DSL for a while, and was only paying $25/month for it. It sure beat the 28.8k dial-up I had out in rural NH where the only other option was satellite. Still, unless you live way out in the sticks like I did, you generally have DSL and cable going head-to-head; places that don’t have both usually have neither.
@ragingloli Broadband access in the US is far slower and more expensive than in more civilized places like much of Asia and Europe. Not directly comparable.
@jerv She doesn’t live in the sticks, though. She lives in a relatively large town in Kansas. She has options.
@Rarebear That was my point. She said, “Apparently there are no other internet providers in this area.”, and you have pretty much backed me up that that there are alternatives. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding…
No, I’m just tired. You were clear.
Well, AT&T doesn’t provide service, at least not to my house. I’ll check with comcast.
OK, well, I was wrong. The starter package is $29.99 but I’m getting a discount (probably because I cancelled my cable service with them!) so I’m only paying $23.99 for now. I haven’t seen a bill, but I guess I actually have a credit from the cable I cancelled, and also a deposit of $40 because customers who hit the 10 year mark get that deposit credited back. So I have a total credit of $51.24 so I’m good.
A tech is supposed to be coming in today to check all my connections.
Amazing how nice they get when they think they’re going to lose you.
Well, $24 for 1M/256K is about right.
I wonder if it’s my camera too. I had an Olympus and I was able to upload video within 10, 15 minutes. Not so with the first video I recently took with my Canon. We’re talking HOURS, a whole day. I set it uploading onto photobucket. Left it overnight. Got a message the next day that the upload had failed.
If that is what your contract gives you there are only two solutions:
1. Resize/Compress the video to a very small size. That will completely obliterate the quality though.
2. Order a faster connection from your provider. That will cost more.
Also, what is the file size of the video you tried to upload?
WAIT WAIT WAIT ! ! You are downloading from Camera through the Computer to the Inter-Web? Why not camera to hard drive and then to Inter-Web from computer?
No..I downloaded it to my hardrive first @Tropical_Willie.
There is a 3rd solution…I wait! I’m downloading the video in question to FB now. I started about 2 hours ago. It is now at….21%.
The size is 757 MB.
that will take hours. by my calculations, at an upload speed of 32kb/s, about 7 hours total.
That’s about right. Cox is here now looking at stuff.
You really need to reduce the file size before you try to upload a video. especially with your rubbish connection
Agree with @ragingloli.
After all of this drama, we absolutely have to see the video.
@Rarebear Hear hear. But I think it will be the weekend before we see it. ;>)
LOL! It’s the twins! I’ll post it if you want tho!
Cox guy managed to disrupt my video upload on fb, so starting over. It’s is now 2:58. Maybe you’ll be able to see in it 7 or 8 hours!
twins… is that a euphemism?
also: “Cox guy managed to disrupt my video upload on fb”
What a dick.
I could not resist
This is why I check my resolution before uploading. A 1600×1200 image/video takes four times as much space (2 times 2) as one that’s 800×600. Odds are that your new camera shoots at higher resolution, which leads to far larger files.
No. It’s two babies. Fraternal twins. 8 months old. Boy and a girl. They don’t match at all.
You could try this program
just drop the file in, and click on the wizard staff to go to the conversion settings, where you can set the target resolution, among other things.
On youtube there is also an option I think to upload videos at various quality. I’m not sure about Facebook.
@Rarebear
Yeah, Youtube can create lower resolution versions of an uploaded video, but you still have to upload the full size, which does nothing to help in this situation.
I chose 800 X 600 (I think) and MP4 because @ragingloli said something about MP4. I wish one of you were here!
What is hot spot shield?
I did not say anything about mp4.
Ok, I did a test one, and that was OK. Now I’m converting a copy of the one I want.
I hate downloading programs. I always end up with a bunch of other crap that I don’t know what it is and it kind of worries me.
@ragingloli Sorry…@johnpowell did. I knew SOMEBODY did, anyway! All you jellies look alike, you know.
Also, I would recommend selecting h264 baseline in the video codec dropdown list.
Uploading to photbucket failed, but it failed really really quick!! Trying other formats.
I don’t see a codec drop down list.
I can play it on my computer, but it won’t upload to photobucket.
Oh sorry, I thought you were using the program I linked to.
I am Raggie. At least I think I am. I clicked on your link to get to it.
Here are my options: One
Two
You need to click on the wizard wand to get to advanced options.
Thanks…found the settings you mentioned in there…some wizard. You have to tell it what to do! Just like a husband.
Uploading. Very, very slowly.
what’s the filesize of the new file?
Down from 757. It certainly will not take as long as before ^__^
Nope! :) It’s bout 4/5ths done!
SUCESS!!!
3 minutes of video of Some Body Else’s Kid! Gotta love it!
a couple of weeks ago I told Corrie (Mom) that Kale looks like a paraplegic. Corrie said, “No he doesn’t!”
“Yes. Yes he does.”
A moment later I yelled, “Lieutenant Dan! Look out for that chair Lieutenant Dan!”
“MOM! Shut up!”
LOLL!
I called the utility company the next day to pay the bill. The lady said, “This is Corrie’s Mom, right?”
I said, “Uh, yeah…?”
She said “Corrie was in with the twins yesterday and she said you’re calling Kale Lieutenant Dan!”
“Well! He looks like a paraplegic!” The whole office just laughed and laughed.
In this video he does The Hoff pose too….
Savannah coos, Kale grunts like everything he does is SO HARD! You know how guys are. ;)
Now if you were a real grandmother you would have closed the door to the closet when they crawled into it.
with them inside, of course
Of course :)
What closet, btw? I don’t see know stinkin’ closet.
My bad. It looks like a laundry room not a closet.
IT’S A KITCHEN YA DING DONG!! Geez. I can see you doing an appendectomy…“Oops! My bad! I better try and put that spleen back!” What is with my spelling….“know” closet”?
LOL!
It was weird how they seemed disappeared into the dark like they were going through a nebulous curtain, or some sort of cosmic warp…NOO!!! DON’T GO TO THE DARK SIDE!! That was just an illusion because there was, actually, plenty of light. But it was still a cool illusion.
I’m baaack! I had a video production place transfer some VHS tape of my kids from 1987 to DVD. Would like to post it, but it’s too big. I converted it. What I ended up with was just the sound, but no picture…there was an icon of a big, fat, blue musical note in place of the video.
Wassup with that?
VHS…tape?
I used the site that Raggie linked me to above, here.
@Dutchess_III @ragingloli There may be some sort of video codec you’re missing, or for some reason it’s not reading the video. Often in these video conversions two files are created, one audio and one video. It could be that you’re just reading the audio.
Argh. I wish I knew what all the coding meant. Maybe I should edjacate myself.
You want to ejaculate yourself?
Ah! I have another video I’m trying to compress, but I don’t know which numbers to pick in the wizard!!
format: avi
in the big dropdown field you can select HD ready, or anything below that, then you click on the magic wand, and in the video codec drop down, select h264 baseline.
5mbts
Resolution Width / Heighth down to 512 320 down to 16.2 mb.
I also changed the format to MOV because AVI was saving it as a music file.
AND WE HAVE LIFT OFF!!
Trying it again. It keeps wanting to save it as a movie file….working on that now (I’m just making notes for myself, guys.)
HELP! What am I doing wrong? Loli?
It keeps wanting to save it as a music file only, no video.
I got it.
Changed the quality.
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