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Originally Posted by Andy T.
and by the way, how was that possible, I thought you clips that long weren't allowed on youtube??).Andy T.
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Great comment/question Android,and one that I asked myself as I found an increasing number of what appeared to be quite ordinary YouTube members uploading a large number of videos that were very much larger than the apparent maximum length of 15 minutes (earlier it had been only 10 minutes and there were several instances of longer videos being split into 10 minute parts to comply one in particular was a series of eight parts of a 1942 black and white filmed version of one of my favourite Nevil Shute novels "Pied Piper" "8 videos 1 hour, 26 minutes" although somebody else had then created a YouTube playlist which causes the eight parts to play sequentially.The complete playlist version then had a different URL to any of the constituent parts,
As an experiment I pasted tha URL into a new thread on the Test Forum that I called enticingly "youtube playlists" at:-
http://corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php...light=playlist
the experiment inexplicably dismally failed even though the system worked on the actual youtube page.
Yet I kept seeing longer videos especially the two 30 minute parts of this 1972 concert broadcast by the BBC in 2011.
I actually found one optimistic devoted country music fan who had successfully uploaded a mammoth compilation video of his selection of highlights from 7 years of the annual CMA Awards TV show as a single seven hour video!! and there are many complete movies up there too
I could only assume that the people uploading these longer items must have shelled out big bucks to Mr Google to become special "Partners" or something.
But there were so many and there appeared to be no references for such a procedure, that I could find, anyway
I refused to be beaten and after a modicum of determined searching eventually I found the answer carefully and almost obscurely hidden in my video manager's dashboard
I found that my three previous copyright transgressions had now "expired" so that I was now again a YouTube member in "good standing" and by simply checking a checkbox I enabled the uploading of longer videos. to celebrate I uploaded a sample 50 minute documentary of inspired insanity on The Goons (a 1950's British BBC comedy radio program that enthralled me in my teen years and inspired much of the comedy that followed especially Monty Python and the Laugh In)
I started yet another Test Forum thread to test this video and called it irresistably I fondly thought "Video Test" at:-
http://corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php...ght=video+test
Nobody but nobody replied to it.
I fully intended to follow up myself knowing that at least one corfiddler had asked how it was possible to exceed the 10/15 minute limit
I searched the Forums fo a suitable quote to respond to but the relatively inefficient search system here failed me
I was therefore very pleased when this topic was recycled and I could respond to Android's poser.
Finally if anybody fals to locate YouTube's vital check box please ask me for detailed instructions I have already made suitable navigational screenshots