Hello Steem Blockchain!
As some of you already know, I live in China. This is an awesome country but one thing that really irks me is the internet speed. What I am fortunate for is that DTube is NOT blocked by the Great Firewall. I can access DTube without a VPN.
However, one problem you might have if you are located in China (or have a slow internet connection) is that it will take a reeeeally long time to upload normal sized videos.
In this video, I want to show you how you can save a whole lot of time (and fits of rage) by following the steps outlined in the video. I cannot tell you how many times I tried to upload a video (around 1GB in size) and 80% of the way, the progress bar magically disappears. I can't tell you how many times I tried to submit, only to get "IPFS error."
Some videos I tried over 5 times to submit. I started in the morning and it wasn't until the late afternoon or evening that I finally got it all uploaded.
This video will save your life.
Here's what you need to do.
- Download HandBrake. It is a free open source software that reduces your file size.
- In Handbrake, select 480p so that you can scale it down to a smaller size.
On DTube, all videos are encoded to 480p after you upload them so why waste hours of your day uploading a file over 1GB at 1080p when it'll get encoded to 480p after?
Instead, get it down to 480p using HandBrake because it doesn't require uploading with an internet connection. After you have done that, you can take a 1.23GB file and reduce it to 52MB. This will save your life.
Upload it to DTube and you will thank me later. It is probable you will run into some errors uploading, and you don't want to have that happen to you after waiting over an hour to get to 80%.
Hope this helps!
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