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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
I couldn't do it either, it gets transcoded. AFAICT, they all transcode, even in HD, and the web codec used is rate limited. Which makes sense, because if they didn't, the high movement would peak the bandwidth, chopping it up and taking up several other slots in bandwidth.

Rate limiting codecs give up quality in panning and high-action scenes to keep the bit rate down.

I'm afraid that you're either stuck with a HD service from a normal site or, you could post it to a normal site like YouTube and linking the original to a file sharing site, file-based, one that doesn't require membership.

To protect it, you could pack the file with a password. WinRAR (if you own one) is notoriously harder to crack open after encryption relative to free zip.

Large Zipped files with decent passwords is also very hard to knock, as the weakness of Zip lies in non-solid archiving.
Well it's not like I need top-notch security for my videos, they're not top-secret; I just don't want to show them to every youtube user in the world, but only my friends, family and students, i.e. the people who appear in my clips.

however, I found that some services let you import the stuff you uploaded to youtube, but in the same quality, letting you share Youtube-private videos with your contacts from those services (e.g. multiply, windows live and facebook).

File sharing is also a good option though: No streaming, but downloading is ok, as long as noone needs to register just in order to watch a short clip. E.g. 4shared has pretty decent handling of privacy settings, and a desktop client!