Unfortunately, it looks like YouTube has changed the way they process .mp4 videos. At least for the type of mp4 files created by my nokia phone (Nokia N95). The videos now appear more jerky (less frames per second / FPS?), and there is no longer a HQ option. My phone takes great videos and this has been a nice way to share them with family. I may have to look for an alternative service, or convert and host them myself. Google where are you? I hope this gets changed, as it is a move backwards for me. This seems to have happened at the time when they started promoting HD content (720p). Oh well… Here are 2 examples of my videos. I’m sure you can tell the difference. They were both taken with the same phone, same application and everything. I transferred the jerky one to my PC to verify and it looks nice and smooth there.
Video 1: Nice quality, even better if you select HQ
Video 2: Jerky, no HQ option
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1 Ron S // Mar 22, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Looks like there is some further discussion on this
http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-howto/browse_thread/thread/d542fdd67050f41b/4a82c457644570d0?hl=en-US#4a82c457644570d0
2 Getting HQ (High Quality) on YouTube with a Nokia n95 // Apr 8, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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