thecoalman - 5:14 am on Dec 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

Perhaps the first will be higher quality, but people will need to download much more data to see the video

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If you're uploading to youtube they will re-encode it unless it meets their specs. The best thing to do is to upload the highest quality video you have.

Wish I knew the filesize of videos I have clicked on to guage what is an acceptable download time.

The filesize doesn't really matter becsue that is determined by length*bitrate, what matters is the bitrate. I believe youtube uses about 250kbps for regular uploads.


FYI you can serve this from your own server. For .flv all you need is a flash player.