Limit bandwidth on a crap connection?

The VCR King

The VCR King

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I am trying to upload a long gaming video to my Youtube channel and although I get 15mbps down on my internet my upload speed it absolute crap and any time I upload to YouTube it uses all my bandwidth and internet use is literally impossible while the video is uploading. Is there a way to restrict my upload bandwidth to Youtube to like 100kbps (.1 mbps) so I can do other things while it uploads?
 
What is your upload speed? On a 15mb download, would assume you are getting around 1mb upload. I don't think you can do what you are wanting. Check QOS settings in your router to see whats available.
 
.1 mbps would take nearly five hours to upload a 200 MB video, and that's probably a really conservative estimate for your file size.

What does your ISP give you for upstream? I'd probably just queue it before going to bed. Some platforms can QoS outbound depending on the IP.
 
beers said:
.1 mbps would take nearly five hours to upload a 200 MB video, and that's probably a really conservative estimate for your file size.

What does your ISP give you for upstream? I'd probably just queue it before going to bed. Some platforms can QoS outbound depending on the IP.
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LOL I get 15 down and .5 up, and the video file is 49GB. I'm not kidding. I've uploaded 30GB files and it took two weeks (LITERALLY!) because my upstream is absolute crap. I need help to throttle down the bandwidth just to youtube.com/upload but google searches are useless. My router is a Netgear WNDR4500 and that is connected to my other router, my Arris NVG510.
 
Render the video for youtube using something like Adobe Premiere Pro (trial will work). That will reduce the upload to around 700MB without losing much. You can upload it within APP to you tube and manage the quality and size settings.
 
I would convert that monstrosity to MP4 using Freemake. You have to be realistic here. You will never be able to upload a massive 49GB video.
 
How long is that video? Unless the video is like 24 hours long, there's no reason it should be 49GB for YouTube. You can easily get 2-3 hours down to a couple gigs and have it still be 1080P. With a 0.5Mbps upload, it would take you 9.3 days to upload that video at full speed. You simply can not do it, and if you want to cut that down to 100Kbps it would take you 5x longer.
 
Geoff said:
How long is that video? Unless the video is like 24 hours long, there's no reason it should be 49GB for YouTube. You can easily get 2-3 hours down to a couple gigs and have it still be 1080P. With a 0.5Mbps upload, it would take you 9.3 days to upload that video at full speed. You simply can not do it, and if you want to cut that down to 100Kbps it would take you 5x longer.
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The video actually is 24 hours long lol. It's a Fallout 4 compilation I worked on.
 
The VCR King said:
The video actually is 24 hours long lol. It's a Fallout 4 compilation I worked on.
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Have you watched it all the way through? :P

You're going to need some serious compression software or render at a low bitrate and/or resolution there to get a file small enough to upload to you. I'm on 30mbps down / 5 mbps up and it takes me an hour to upload a 1GB video to YouTube on my connection and my internet runs at a snail's pace whilst it's uploading.

Get the trial of Premiere Pro, create a new project, put your video in it, then go to File -> Export -> Media (or Ctrl+M) and mess around with the export settings until you get something more manageable. At the bottom of the export window Premiere Pro will give you an estimated file size. If your file is 49GB it sounds to me like you have recorded it with FRAPS (which produces huge AVI files) and have just made a video stringing those files and exported using the highest quality settings, hence for a 49GB video. :D
 
Is it even possible to upload a 24 hour long video without being a partner or something? There used to be a 15 minute limit a long time ago unless you were a partner but that's gone now. I'm not sure what the current maximum length is but yeah nobody is going to sit and watch a 24 hour long video and even if you used the methods I described to reduce the file size it will still be a really big file. It would take hours to buffer on some people's connections too so they wouldn't even bother to look.
 
The VCR King said:
The video actually is 24 hours long lol. It's a Fallout 4 compilation I worked on.
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Who is your target for this video? Most gaming videos are maybe 5-15 minutes long, with some exceptions like tournaments and so on. NO ONE is going to watch a 24 hour video of you gaming. I don't think you can even upload video that long to YouTube.
 
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