Remote youtube upload

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09-15-2011, 12:43 PM
zenga

Remote youtube upload

Hey,

I have a couple of wow movies in the pipeline and have much more planned (featuring both boxing and single player content), but my upload speed is very limited. Takes about 12-13 hours to upload/process a 10m clip in HD ( which is about 1,2gb). Which is not very practical. In my area we have fibernet available, but only 2 people per node can subscribe to it until they upgrade the network for time being. Yesterday I discovered by accident my little sister who lives in a parallel street is one of the lucky fibernet bastards. She upgraded her account a month or 2 ago to 5mb fibernet upload, while she only watches comic movies on youtube with my 2,5y old niece and checks her email every other 2 weeks, if she doesn't forget to do so.

Now I own a dedicated machine in a very high end data server, with fairly sick bandwith. Uploaded a 1gyg testfile today from my sis her machine to my server and this took 4.5 minute. The ideal solution for me would be to put my movies on a usb stick, and upload them from to my channel from my sis her place. In reality we love eachother, but we bust eachothers balls on every single occasion. If she finds out I'm making movies about videogames, she is gonna make jokes about it for the next 30 years (if I was her I'd do the same, since her older brother used to mock about every single hobby she has had over the past 20 years such as ballet, flower picking, whatnot).

In order to preserve my aura, the best solution for me would be to upload a tar/gzip file that contains my movies via her connection to my server, have a beer and get back home, then upload the vid remotely from my server to my youtube account.

So my question: does anyone know a practical/existing way of uploading youtube videos from a remote server? I guess I could achieve this in php/curl (which I have experience with), but rather don't have to invent the wheel again.

Anyone any clues before I give in and become the joke for a couple of decades?

cheers
zenga
09-15-2011, 01:02 PM
MiRai

If she's attractive I will bite the bullet and move to Belgium so that I can date her (pending your approval). I
will have no other place to live besides her's and then you can begin to secretly pass me the USB stick with
the files you need uploaded. Be sure to include a text file with your YouTube username/password and the
description, category, and tags needed for each video. In the unlikely event that I am discovered, I can assure
you your secret is safe with me.

What say you?

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...s/fistbump.png
09-15-2011, 02:33 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiRai

What say you?

If you meet the right financial conditions, that can be arranged.
09-15-2011, 02:52 PM
MiRai

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

If you meet the right financial conditions, that can be arranged.

Perfect. Later I'll PM you pics of me both with and without a shirt (pantless can be arranged as well) for your
sister to thoroughly examine and decide if I would make a suitable mate.

Seriously though, I don't have an answer to your actual question and I'm done derailing your thread. :)
09-15-2011, 04:40 PM
Ughmahedhurtz

If you have remote access to the server, can't you remote desktop in via VNC and upload it via the browser on the server? If you own the server, there's no reason I can think of preventing you from doing that. Sure, you'd probably have slow screen updates but otherwise it oughta work OK. I do this frequently from my house to work, though I'll admit I'm on a 45mbit up/down fiber pipe.
09-15-2011, 05:01 PM
HPAVC

I use WebService::GData::YouTube, you can check out http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html and find some upload hints there for elsewhere and otherwise. My guess for the excessively long processing time is that you might be uploading a troublesome codec or similar glitched / performance hit, there again the ./apis/ above will help.

Having an API key upload or a syndicated channel is crazy fast processing, and that makes sense.
09-16-2011, 08:54 AM
zenga

Cheers for the replies. But I discovered quite a simple feature in youtube: apparently they let you upload now via email. On your upload page there is also a mobile upload tab, and there you should have a special email address for your uploads. So upload a tar to my server, then use php build in mail feature and there I am.
09-22-2011, 10:09 AM
Ashley

I use the API HPAVC mentioned above on a 1gbit fibre from my server. I can upload to YouTube from there at like 280mbits

Hardest part was installing the dependencies for the Zend Framework but that was a bit of piss.
09-23-2011, 12:58 AM
thnok

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

Cheers for the replies. But I discovered quite a simple feature in youtube: apparently they let you upload now via email. On your upload page there is also a mobile upload tab, and there you should have a special email address for your uploads. So upload a tar to my server, then use php build in mail feature and there I am.

Hey I am trying to do the same thing can you please provide me some instructions on how to do it?
09-23-2011, 01:30 AM
zenga

You just quoted the instructions ...
09-23-2011, 01:52 AM
thnok

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

You just quoted the instructions ...

Does youtube support tar? In which format did you email youtube?
09-23-2011, 10:03 AM
zenga

The same format of choice as you export a video from your editing software. I upload them as tar to my server, then untar them obviously to email them.