aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, July 09, 2005

User error

I don’t mean to complain, but this video thing is making me crazy!

It turned out I was uploading the wrong file type to Google. It reminds me of when I first learned graphics. Having (basically) figured out the correct file type, I got the files uploaded to Google Video, where they still sit waiting to be approved. I hope the approval process will one day be quicker.

So today, acting upon the good and valuable advice of commenter Sooki, I set up an Our Media account, which requires setting up an Internet Archive account (and a whole new set of bios, links, blogs and profiles), then downloaded the Our Media Publisher.

Having completed all of that, I went to upload my video files (more forms with required descriptive data, copied from the Google Video pending entries) and clicked “Next.” The program crashed. Did it again, got a bit further. Crash. A third time. Crash. I sent error reports.

A wannabe geek, I have several computers here. I can try it from another operating system; I can save the video in yet another format. I will try and try again and I will one day have video on my blog. But for now, much as I hate to say it (ah to be a technologically adept 20 year old!), if the future is already here, I’m oh so stuck in the past.