Youtube problems
For those others here that post videos on Youtube, have you ever encountered this problem?
*The video starts uploading fine, you can see the red bar quickly moving to the right
*Then all of a sudden it stalls, and will stay there forever unless you intervene. For some videos it stalls at the exact same % complete every time, for others it hangs up at different spots. For the ones that stall in the same spot every time, I figured maybe there was a glitch in the file so I re-rendered it but to no avail. It would stall at the same spot, or develop a different "problem spot" that it would always stall at.
The end result is that videos take from 5-10 tries to upload sucessfully, and some videos will not upload at all.
By the way, I am usually generating my videos in Pinnacle Studio Version 9.4, 320x240 .wmv with 44.1 KHz audio. I cannot generate files to the exact specifications that Youtube reccomends without purchasing "enhanced" features for Studio, which I think is BS since I paid almost $100 for the software in the first place. I have also tried uploading .MPG clips directly from my digital camera memory cards, with the same problem. A 10-second clip got stuck at 98% COMPLETE the first time I tried uploading it, although I was eventually able to get it uploaded.
This is driving me nuts, as the whole point of Youtube is to be able to upload videos yet I cannot do it without a major hassle (some videos I have not yet been able to upload sucessfully at all). My repeated frantic inqueries to their "tech support" have resulted in either silence or an e-mailed copy of the same generic "frequently encountered problems" list that is on their web site's rather sketchy help section.
In the meantime, enjoy this one: It's the only one that worked out of the four I tried to upload yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbK34DUeJc
It's on an S scale layout at the Madison Model Railroad Show & Sale in 2003.