Youtube doubled upload size from 1GB TO 2GB

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Good news for Youtube users. Youtube finally increase the size of video upload in youtube from 1GB to 2GB. Now you can upload videos at a higher resolution as well as large HD files directly from your camera. This is useful for those users who want to upload high def videos directly to their blog. On an average a 10 minutes 1080p video takes about 1GB space.

Also Youtube implemented some more new feature to share these high def videos through your blog or website. You can share links directly to the HD version of your video, as well as embed the HD version on your blog or website.

Linking of HD is not integrated with UI, if you want to share a link to the HD version of your video, simply append &hd=1 to the end of the URL. This means the video will start playing in HD as soon as someone follows the link.

Ex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFiN36-jgs8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFiN36-jgs8&hd=1

If you don’t know how to upload videos in Youtube, here is a small tutorial which can help you. To upload the video you need to perform following steps:

Click the Upload button in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.

Click the Browse button to browse for the video file you’d like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.

Click the ‘Upload Video‘ button for uploading the video.
While uploading the video file,you can enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category) for making it easier for users for finding the video.
Click on the ‘Save changes’ button to save the updates.

You can also see our previous useful articles on Youtube

How to download HD video from youtube

Youtube implemented load from browser cache for slow internet connection users

Tagged as: HD, HD video, high def, Youtube, youtube video

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mohan July 2, 2009 at 14:48: Nice info himanshu, thanks for sharing.

2 George Serradinho July 2, 2009 at 17:17: Thanks Himanshu for the info. I actually thought YouTube would of increased the limit sometime ago when HD came out.

I’m not using YouTube as of yet as I don’t have a video camera, but it’s on my list of things to get this year. I would like to start using it soon.
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3 S.K Sharma July 3, 2009 at 07:30: Hello Himanshu !
Really valuable article.

4 Nihar July 3, 2009 at 11:58: Great news.

Thanks for the information.
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