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How to Optimize Your VIDEO for best streaming online

Vuong1213

Published on December 18, 2013

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Hi everyone,

Today I'm uploading a video to YouTube and just found some good tips there. Definitely, I will share it with all of you.

Did you notice one thing (small but extremely important) that when you view a video at YouTube or other video sharing site, some videos loading incredibly FAST while some extremely SLOW or some hiccups or pauses before it continues to playback on YouTube. Of course, it depends on some factors such as YouTube servers, your internet connections, your computer's performance etc.. However, you can improve your uploaded videos at a better streaming speed.

If the video gets slowed down while watching, your viewers would not be patiently enough to watch till the end, they will close that video. This is because when you upload a video from your original video or converted video, you do not pay much attention to some critical elements for video/audio streaming.

Below is some important settings for your videos & make sure you do it first before uploading it online:

Video settings

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  • Compression Type: H.264
  • Video format: mp4
  • Frame Rate: 30 is preferred. 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97 are also acceptable.
  • Data Rate: Automatic
  • Key Frames: Automatic
  • Frame Reordering: Unchecked (meaning we don't select or disable this option)

Audio/Sound settings

  • Format: AAC
  • Choose Constant Bit Rate as encoding strategy

Other settings

  • Size: Choose the original size of the video
  • “Prepare for Internet Streaming”: Fast Start

Read more below:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/58134?rd=1

That's it. I hope you enjoy this tip and find some good piece of information.

Thanks for your reading & have a great day!

Vuong

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