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Videos for upload to YouTube will look and work best if the guidelines are followed:
16:9 Ratio
Highest resolution available
1:1 pixel aspect ration
Supported file formats:
mpeg4, 3GPP, mov (H264 or mpeg4 video codec, AAC audio codec)
avi (mjpeg video, PCM audio)
wmv
flv (Adobe FLV1 video, mp3 audio)
WebM (Vp8 video, Vorbis audio)
For further details see:
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&guide=1728585&topic=1728569&page=guide.cs