Youtube has elimilated the limitation of film duation.

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1. The youtube video service has elimilated the limitation of film duration. 
Could you please update the code to meet the new rules.

2. Suggestion: Provide an option for films not to be processed by ffmpeg. Or 
provides quality parameters. Because youtube provides HD or FullHD conversion. 
So ffmpeg preprocessor should be configurable.

Thanks a lot.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by macp...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2011 at 2:15

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Then now the only limitation (for standard users) is the file size < 2 GB? I 
think this would justify removing ffmpeg completely from the script. What do 
you think?

Original comment by tokland on 10 Mar 2011 at 3:12

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File size remains unchanged (2GB), however, the limitiation of time (10mins or 
15mins) has been elimilated. I usually convert the video from DVD/MPEG2/H.264 
to XVID (AVI) by using ffmpeg before uploading them to youtube (with splitting 
files to 2GB). If doing ffmpeg again with your default configuration usually 
lead the quality of the video will be pulled down.

The following suggestion is:
1. So I think removing ffmpeg is okay.
2. Or you can just use it on spliting the file size by 2GB then keep the output 
format and data rate as the same when the file was input to ffmpeg.

Thanks a lot.

Original comment by macp...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2011 at 3:24

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I think I will remove ffmpeg completely, the 10/15' limitation was pretty 
severe, but size<2Gb is not. I'll leave the users to deal with this 
(orthogonal) task. 

Original comment by tokland on 10 Mar 2011 at 3:30

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I could use some user experience since I myself (ironically) hardly use this 
package. I am thinking of removing the arguments and convert them to options 
(--email, --password, --title, ...). I usually like compulsory arguments not to 
be options, but when there are so many of them is not nice. And we could leave 
video files for arguments: python [options] video1 video2 ... and if more than 
one video, they will be titled accordingly "title [x/y]"

Original comment by tokland on 10 Mar 2011 at 3:39

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Yes, this will be better. Imaging a scenario, if user have a series of video 
and a csv (text) file, they could using shell script or their own python tool 
to update the videos according to the meta-data in the content (title, 
category, etc...) in this text (csv) file. This might be much more easier to do 
front-end/back-end interface (batch scripts, web interface, UI, etc) for this 
youtube-update utility.

Original comment by macp...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2011 at 4:07

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r95

Original comment by tokland on 10 Mar 2011 at 5:58

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Original comment by tokland on 10 Mar 2011 at 5:58

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Original comment by tokland on 13 Mar 2011 at 12:24

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Issue 31 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tokland on 13 Mar 2011 at 4:09

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When will the new version be released?

Original comment by humzabo...@googlemail.com on 13 Mar 2011 at 4:16

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Soon, but I'd prefer to get some feedback before releasing. Check the Readme in 
the wiki, it's pretty easy to install from sources (that's it, if you know how 
to install/user subversion).

Original comment by tokland on 13 Mar 2011 at 4:20

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Ill try once I've installed SVN on my VPS.

Original comment by humzabo...@googlemail.com on 13 Mar 2011 at 4:23

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I just tried to upload a video file using SVN version of the youtube-upload and 
got error of too long video.

Are you sure the duration limit was removed?

Original comment by skliarie@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2011 at 5:27

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I've tried to upload a 50-minute video and it has been rejected. The error 
message is:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71673

"All users have the ability to upload videos up to 15 minutes in length.

At one point, users who initially had Director accounts were able to upload 
longer content - users with these old Director accounts still retain the 
ability to do so which explains why you may occasionally see videos from 
regular (non-Partner) uploaders which are longer than fifteen minutes. Having a 
Director account no longer gives you the ability to upload videos longer than 
15 minutes."

So I guess the OP (macp...@gmail.com) has one those old director accounts 

But I *do* think that removing ffmpeg from the python script was necessary: 
it's an orthogonal task and another script should take care of it. 

Maybe we can work on some code (bash?) to add to the examples directory. 

Splitting a video seems easy but as we have seen (take a look at the issues 
page), there are some problems. Any ffmpeg "expert" reading this to lend a hand?

Original comment by tokland on 20 Mar 2011 at 10:44

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