How to send and watch high quality video and stereo sound on Youtube

Your videos must be compressed to the Flash video format before being uploaded to the site…

Youtube compresses all video to 320 x 240 resolution and mono audio. This produces the familiar blurry looking, tin can sounding videos that you’ve come to expect from the ever popular service. Youtube also converts all video to the Flash video format
At the time of this writing, Youtube still knocks all videos down to these poor quality settings, but they are allowing some videos to be viewed in ‘higher quality’. This HQ option however, still doesn’t allow for stereo sound, and still isn’t all that great.
To beat Youtube’s regular output quality, your videos must be compressed to the Flash video format before being uploaded to the site. As long as your chosen video specs are within Youtube’s parameters, the upload will float past Youtube’s filters untouched (not compressed any further)…

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