{"id":8621,"date":"2009-07-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T07:00:00","slug":"youtube-doubles-video-file-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8621-youtube-doubles-video-file-size.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube doubles video file size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube, in a blog post, said the size limit for uploads to the site was  being doubled, from one gigabyte to two gigabytes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The increase means you can upload longer videos at a higher resolution as  well as large HD files directly from your camera,&#8221; YouTube said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The changes allow you to share links directly to the HD version of your  video, as well as embed the HD version on your blog or website,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>HD video is increasingly popular but the higher resolution results in larger  files.<\/p>\n<p>A YouTube spokesman told AFP that while file size for individual videos was  being increased to two gigabytes, the 10-minute length restriction for videos  posted on the site remains in place.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=179475\">Youtube video size<\/a><\/strong> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}