YouTube vp9

[Matias_Chambers]

How do I upload a video so it uses the webm vp9 codec? All the videos with that codec are just so much better quality than the AVC codec or whatever.

[Electronics Wizardy]

You upload it as h.264 and then youtube converts it.

[Matias_Chambers]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

You upload it as h.264 and then youtube converts it.

Oh, thanks. I just looked at one of my videos that I rendered in H.264 and it is vp9 on YouTube. 

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, Matias_Chambers said:

How do I upload a video so it uses the webm vp9 codec? All the videos with that codec are just so much better quality than the AVC codec or whatever.

 

You don't, at least not specifically. You upload the video and YouTube then decides which formats to convert it to for streaming.

I don't know exactly what causes YouTube to decide which formats to offer videos in, but as far as I'm aware, their system is fully automated and will convert uploaded videos into formats based on the quality of the original upload. Given sufficient quality, everyone's uploads should be available in all formats after YouTube gets around to the conversions.