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Uploading Files Larger than 2 GB Via SFTP to YouTube (4 posts)

• Started 10 years ago by JAM Works
• Latest reply 10 years ago from JAM Works

• JAM Works Member

  About a year ago, a post production service uploaded a video file larger than 2 GB to YouTube for me. A technician explained, "As per YouTube specs, files larger than 2 GB can be uploaded via SFTP."

  I have never been able to find these specs. Also, I cannot find YouTube's hostname for uploading via SFTP. I want to be able to do this myself, now.

  Obviously, this is really a question for YouTube. But can anyone on this forum share experience uploading via SFTP to YouTube?

  Posted 10 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  I don't have personal experience with this, but YouTube has a couple of help topics on the subject:

  http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106969

  http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173684

  Let me know if you have any questions about following these instructions with Fetch.

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 10 years ago #

• JAM Works Member

  Thanks, but I don't completely understand either of those help articles. More importantly, I don't think they apply to a regular YouTube user like myself.

  Both articles seem to have something to do with using YouTube's Content Manager, which is something that I am not using, and don't need.

  Posted 10 years ago #

• JAM Works Member

  This help article implies that you have to have a special account by referring to "your YouTube Technical Account Manger":

  http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173674

  I think using SFTP is not available to a regular YouTube user like myself.

  Posted 10 years ago #