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15: Tempest in a Teapot

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How Does YouTube Process Videos?

When you upload a video to YouTube, it uploads and then it goes into processing. They are taking your file and compressing it with whatever they'd used to compress it. The problem is there's no indication of what is happening. You upload it and just start processing. And then I got an email to tell me that the video of process. So I went to it and it was horrible resolution. It just processed the smallest version of it.

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