RE: Getting Dtube Uploads to Work 100% of the Time
It appears the real issue is with available bandwidth to stream videos back to users, so it would make sense that compressing the files would make them load faster and have less errors. Dlive is even worse it seems.
DTube, much like Dlive, cannot handle HD videos with larger file sizes very well. Dlive cannot even handle anything over 2.5Mb/s while live streaming, otherwise it locks up.
While handbrake works great, it also takes forever to encode videos. It can take an hour to re-encode a video that's 2.0 GB, that's way too long. Xilisoft is a much better bet, it takes like 1/10 the amount of time to re-encode, and it supports all major video formats. The only bad part about xilisoft is that it isn't free like handbrake. http://www.xilisoft.com/video-converter-software.html
Hmm, I'll give it a try.
Handbrake is a bit slow. My rule of thumb is that it takes as long to re-encode a given HD video as the video length itself.
Yeah, Handbrake is a bit slow it seems. It does have the benefit of being free though. Xilisoft has costs associated with it, but I find it so easy to use and encoding is pretty quick.
One of the things I like best about Handbrake is that while it's slow it's also not system intensive. So, I can have a video getting reworked even while editing another video without bogging things down.