incredibly long upload times?

Flintstone

Member
Joined
Jan 21, 2019
Messages
10
Reaction score
0
Age
74
i know this topic is all over the internet, but from what i'm seeing here they're asking why it takes 'up to 2 hours' to upload a video.

i've got a 1hr 17m, 1080p, 9.99Gb video here.. which i realize is relatively large, but it's going on 38 hours now. seems *too* long. it's always like this. is there something i can do? what is it doing exactly, converting it? can i convert for it? i'm just using mp4's... should i use another file type?

is there anything i can do on my end to help youtube/speed things up?
 

Flintstone

Member
Joined
Jan 21, 2019
Messages
10
Reaction score
0
Age
74
wow, ok, aaaand it finally got to the Processing stage and i got a "Invalid request, authentication expired." and now it's just sitting there doing nothing. thinking about ripping all of my hair out. this is absurd.
 

Flintstone

Member
Joined
Jan 21, 2019
Messages
10
Reaction score
0
Age
74
oooook, i guess it worked out?????? got to 95%, stuck forever, then it hits "publish", i click the thing, nothing happens. "check video details". then magically it worked, BUT.. only after i change the thumbnail because i got a "Unexpected end of JSON input" error aaaaand now i can't upload my custom thumb

uhhhhhhhh, yeah. youtube. having a blast. WOW.

i'm just amazed. stunned.
 

Dutchie Abroad

Exploring the world one video at a time!
Joined
Aug 13, 2017
Messages
939
Reaction score
690
Age
31
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Website
www.youtube.com
Channel Type
Vlogger
got to 95%, stuck forever, then it hits "publish", i click the thing, nothing happens. "check video details". then magically it worked,
This is a well know method to 'solve' the processing getting stuck on either 0% or 95%. Weird it gave an error after you tried to change the thumbnail though.

10 GB is really large for a video, so I'm not all that surprised it takes long to upload, but 38 hours is a bit excessive indeed. I didn't know that upload times up to 2 hours was considered a bug though, I just blamed in on my slow internet. I'm not really sure what to do about it though.
 

Crown

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Joined
Sep 5, 2013
Messages
22,408
Reaction score
20,367
Channel Type
Guru
Moved to the recording / editing / production / software / hardware forum. :)

9Gb is huge. I'm not really surprised it took so long. It's more likely to be due to file size and your upload speed. Check your upload speed here: https://www.speedtest.net/ It could be your ISP throttling your speed. - THey won't like you uploading a 9 Gb file lol.
 

Flintstone

Member
Joined
Jan 21, 2019
Messages
10
Reaction score
0
Age
74
so we're encouraged to use 1080p, but.. we shouldn't? i don't get this "THey won't like you uploading a 9 Gb file lol"

yeah, .70 Mbps upload. not too good. CenturyLink is horrible overall so I guess I'll blame them.
 
Joined
Apr 27, 2019
Messages
10
Reaction score
0
Channel Type
Gamer
I have 11mbps upload and I feel like that is slow couldn't imagine 0.9. You can make your file size smaller that will help but I recomend buying better internet or asking a friend with better internet if you can use his/hers to upload it.