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YouTube and The Sucky Uploading Tool

Posted on March 01, 2008 by James Mowery

Why the greatest company around repeatedly fails to fix a simple script that uploads videos is beyond me.  Frankly, I see it as an embarrassment to the company.  I for one know that many people have had issues with uploading videos on YouTube.  It does not even require an effort to search online as I talk to people on a daily basis that have had issues.  It is not the users’ fault either.

I just learned that it might be an issue with the latest flash player, but even if that is the case, I have had issues for well over a year now.  I’ve even performed clean installs.  It just makes no sense.

YouTube, a company that supposedly represents some of the best innovation online has never had it right with their upload tool.  Ever since I first joined the site, I have had issues that just baffle me.  YouTube, Google please fix this problem!

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6 Comments

  1. Srikant

    i have had problems too ,but the multiuploiader feature is unique man,i just uploaded three videos today and they were all within 2 mins of processing.the single file upload doesn’t work.there you have the solution


  2. James Mowery

    Problem is that the multi upload tool does not work either.


  3. Srikant

    I am sorry to disagree but it is working perfectly fine here.I don’t know about your net speed but here we have 2 mbps connection in my hostel in india and youtube is processing faster than metacafe,yahoo video etc using the multi uplaod tool



  4. topofthecircle

    YouTube has stopped uploading and cuts off videos about 2/3 of the way through, or displays a “failure” warning about not being in the right format!

    WTF, people!

    You’re about to lose marketshare, YouTube!


  5. Adam Findlay

    Well im currently uploading a 226MB video i have just made at top notch quality (750×540, quicktime, 3mbit) fresh from premiere pro and im on 8mbit net, and guess what, the multi uploader dosent work!


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