YouTube Upload Size Doubles

The YouTube Blog earlier today announced that they’ve increased the upload limit from 1GB to 2GB. The increased limit means that users can now upload higher quality videos as well as HD videos. The 10 minute time limit does remain the same, for general users, as can be seen here in their documentation.

In addition to the increased upload size, YouTube now offers links directly to HD videos as well as embedded code for websites allowing users to immediately start watching the HD content as soon as the click the link or watch the embedded video. The YouTube Team provides a few tips on how to access and use these added features:

* To share a link to the HD version of your video, simply append &hd=1 to the end of the URL. This means the video will start playing in HD as soon as someone follows the link. Cool, huh?

* To embed the HD version of a video on a website or blog, click the ‘customize’ button to the right of the embed box on the video page. Some options will appear; simply check ‘play in HD’. The embed code that’s generated will cause the video to start playing in HD as soon as a viewer clicks play. We recommend embedding HD videos at the largest size (853×505) for maximum enjoyment.