How to Upload MP4 to YouTube Fast without Any Errors

YouTube doesn’t process MP4 videos. When did YouTube stop allowing MP4 videos to be uploaded? It’s throwing “The video has failed to process. Please make sure you are uploading a supported file type”. Is processing currently broken? — from YouTube Help Forum

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You’d be wrong if you think that how to upload MP4 to YouTube is a noob question or if you think you can upload every MP4 video file straight to YouTube successfully as MP4 format is supported by YouTube. We’ve soured a large number of forums to find the main problems people have run into when uploading MP4 to YouTube, and provided workarounds and solutions for these errors.

Common MP4 to YouTube Upload Errors and Solutions

1. Can’t upload MP4 to YouTube – Unsupported File Type

MP4 is in the list of YouTube supported format, but some users still receive “invalid file format” error message when trying to uploading MP4 to YouTube. You should know that MP4 is a container format that can be encoded with many different types of codecs, such as Divx, H264, MPEG-4, H.263 and audio codecs AAC, MP4, AC-3, Vorbis etc. The best format for YouTube is is H.264/AAC MP4. You’ll fail to upload MP4 to YouTube if the codecs are not compatible with YouTube. Check out your MP4 file information with free program MediaInfo. If it’s in the wrong codec, decode the MP4 video to YouTube compatible format with the help of MP4 video converter.

2. Corrupted MP4 video when upload to YouTube

When I upload the mp4 to YouTube, the first part of the video (the part with animation) becomes a solid colour across the entire frame (switches between green, dark green, and grey). The final 5 seconds of the video (the final concatenated video) displays correctly.
Corrupted or broken MP4 video won’t be uploaded successfully to YouTube. Check out whether your MP4 video is corrupted or not by playing them with MP4 player. If the MP4 file is corrupted, follow to repair corrupted MP4 video and upload broken MP4 to YouTube without errors.

3. MP4 video is too long to upload YouTube

“UPLOAD FAILED, VIDEO TOO LONG”
I just finished uploading an 18 min video and was then asked to verify my account. I have since verified it using my phone number. However, when I go to my VIDEO MANAGER to activate it; there’s no option. Can someone please help me activate the 18 min video?

You can upload a MP4 video up to 15 minutes by default. To upload longer MP4 videos, follow the steps below to verify your account.

1. Open the page https://www.youtube.com/upload, click “Increase your limit” link at the bottom.
2. Follow the instructions and click “Submit” to verify your account. It’s very easy.

The maximum file size you can upload to YouTube is 128MB.

4. MP4 video is stuck during upload

Many users report that MP4 videos take a long time to upload or are stuck halfway. The issue might be caused by big file size, or slow internet connection or heavy uploads traffic. You can compress the MP4 video size down for faster upload or change your internet server if it’s an internet related issue, and avoid busy time/peak hours to upload MP4 video to YouTube.

5. MP4 video won’t process during uploading

Your MP4 video is fine and the video audio format codecs are accepted by YouTube, but YouTube just stops processing and says “Published 0%” during uploading. It’s probably not your reason that MP4 video stops processing when uploading to YouTube. High traffic on YouTube every day causes high heavy burden on the server. And it might be a bug that the YouTube system need to fix.