Videopress uploads all blocky

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  soundwavefestival · Member · Aug 10, 2009 at 3:43 am

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  Everytime I upload a video (encoded h264 at 640px wide) it comes out blocky.

  My source material is fine.

  Any suggestions?

  Dave.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 10, 2009 at 3:43 am

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  We need a link to the blog.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 10, 2009 at 4:18 am

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  If this is the blog you are talking about, http://soundwavefestival.wordpress.com/ it is set to private so we aren’t going to be able to help I don’t think. You will probably have to contact support directly at http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ .

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  soundwavefestival · Member · Aug 11, 2009 at 7:18 am

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  Thanks for replying. I’m not sure why it was making it blocky.. the videos i uploaded today seem fine. ??

  One other thing though, how do I force VP to make a DVD quality version? I’ve uploaded at 640×360 but it doesn’t always make a DVD quality version.

  Thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm

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  The problem is, since I can’t see the blog I cannot really help. To get HD quality video, you have to insert the video into the post at a width of 640px or above, and few themes have post width areas that wide. From the videopress support document ( http://support.wordpress.com/videos/ ):

  Our video player intelligently selects the best quality video, depending on the embed width. For example, if the player embed width is 400 px, it will play the standard format video. If the embed width is 640 px, and if the DVD quality video is available, the player will play the DVD quality video. If HD quality video is available, user can click HD button to select and play it. HD is best viewed in full screen mode.

  See this blog post for maximum widths for videos and images in posts (right column) and use one of the themes that have a width of at least 640 in the post area: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/images/ .

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  soundwavefestival · Member · Aug 11, 2009 at 2:23 pm

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  It’s this bit I’m having issue with “if the DVD quality video is available”.

  For some DVD is available, others not. The source files are all 640px wide!

  I can’t make it public yet although I do appreciate your help.