Slow Youtube upload speed?

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I have started to upload helmet cam videos from my rides.  However,some of my videos take a ridiculous amount of time to upload.  On two occasions the projected upload time has been wrong.  One occasion I set an upload for a 10 minute video.  It projected 4 hours.  When I came down the next morning only 13% had loaded and it projected another week to upload.  Last night I did the same thing and came down to find that 22% had been uploaded over 9 hrs.  

My video editing is with the Free Microsoft one.  Helmet cam shoots in either 1080 or 720p.  And I prepare video in HD setting.

What can I do to upload this stuff faster?

Camera R · Accepted Answer

Micorsoft Video One is an old CODEC with poor compression.  However, it will play on most PC's with no problem.  Due to its poor compression, it is NOT a CODEC that you would want to use with HD as you've discovered.  For HD would recommend Xvid/mpeg4/AVI, or H.264/AVI.

The following are capable of the above and more.  May I suggest three very good free video editor programs, Freemake, FileLab, or VSDC?  Each is safe, fully functioning, no watermarks, will not ask for money, and are recent releases that are HD capable.  Take your pick:
http://ezvideoedit.blogspot.com/2012/10/joining-merging-splitting-cutting-and.html

Please also view a bit of the following videos edited with the above programs.  They may help you decide:

VSDC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luyOn5DdUZs

FileLab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbAe-mUscs

Freemake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tPMPhaM7A

Panos · Answer

Try rebooting your router maybe your line is flooded. This will re-sync your line and get the proper values. Also shutdown everything that uses your internet heavily e.g uTorrent etc. and try to keep the size of the videos as small as you can. 720p is ok i guess.

Slow Youtube upload speed?

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