How to upload
Uploading videos on Dailymotion is easy. Just follow the instructions below.
- Sign in to www.dailymotion.com with your username and password.
- Click the Upload button in the page’s header.
- On the upload page, click the Select Video Files button to browse for a video file on your computer.Tip: Read the Video Specifications section to see required and recommended upload parameters.
- Choose your desired video file(s), and click open. Your video(s) will automatically start uploading.
- Fill out your video’s information. Title, Category, and Language are required.
- Click the Publish button to upload your video and save your changes.
- At the bottom of the page, you can click the Upload a video button again to simultaneously start uploading another video. You can upload up to 5 videos at the same time.
Note: Upload time depends upon file size and your connection speed. Once a video has been uploaded, it must be encoded before it can be watched on Dailymotion. This can take several minutes.
Note: Certain content is prohibited on Dailymotion. To learn more, read our content policy.
Looking for other options ?
- Use the Classic Uploader to upload one video at a time without using Adobe Flash.
- We also offer advanced upload options via API (developers only) or via MRSS, XML, and CSS (Dailymotion partners only).
Upload specifications and encoding settings
In order to ensure an error-free upload process on Dailymotion, make sure to follow the below guidelines.
Maximum file size: 2 GB
Maximum video duration: 60 minutes
Format
- .MOV
- .MPEG4
- MP4
- .AVI
- .WMV
Container
- MP4
- AVI
- MOV
Encoding
- 2 pass progressive encoding (non-interlaced only)
Video codec
- H.264 (recommended)
- DivX
- WMV9
- MPEG-2
Audio codec
- AAC (recommended)
- MP3
- WMA9
- MPEG Layer 2
Frame rate
- 25 FPS (recommended)
- 24 FPS
- 30 FPS
Video bitrate
- 1.2–4 Mbps
Audio bitrate
- 128–320 Kbps
Resolution
- Up to 3840 x 2160 (1080p)
Aspect ratio
- 16:9 (recommended)
- 4:3 (will create black bars on sides of video)
Upload policies
All uploads must conform to our Terms of Use and Policies.
To prevent spam, all Dailymotion users are limited to:
- 96 uploads per day
- 2 hours of video per day
- 60 minutes per video
If you break these limits, your upload privileges may be suspended for 24 hours and you will see the following error message:
Because our system has detected unusual upload activity from your account, your upload rights have been temporarily suspended. Pending review from our team, your upload rights will be restored within twenty-four hours.
Upload troubleshooting
Encoding errors may occur when the format of the uploaded video is not supported by Dailymotion. To avoid these errors, we recommend uploading videos in the following formats: MP4, WMV, MPEG, AVI, DV, 3GP, FLV.
Encoding errors may also occur if your video is not optimized for the web. If you repeatedly face encoding errors, please contact our support team.
Advanced upload options
Here is some information about different ways to upload videos.
To upload a large video catalog, please contact your content manager.
If you don't yet have a content manager, you can submit a request for video upload. Select Video upload from the drop-down and in the Description box, briefly explain that you are looking to upload a large video catalog and we will respond to you as soon as possible. We will need to use either MRSS, XML, or CSV.
We use standard specs according to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) which are available on our wiki page (MRSS Importer Specifications).
Example of a basic mrss feed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:dm="http://www.dailymotion.com/dmrss/">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[Universal Pictures]]></title>
<link>http://www.universalpictures.com/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Universal Pictures is an American motion picture studio]]></description>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Back to the Future]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film...]]></description>
<media:category scheme="urn:dm:channel">shortfilms</media:category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">12345_back_to_the_future</guid>
<media:content url="http://www.example.com/video/12345_back_to_the_future.mp4" width="1280" height="720" bitrate="3317" filesize="1326739508" duration="6960" type="video/quicktime" lang="en" />
<media:keywords><![CDATA[DeLorean, Time Machine, Back to the Future]]></media:keywords>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
The following metadata is required:
- Dailymotion Namespace: Defined as xmlns:dm="http://www.dailymotion.com/dmrss/" for paramter configuration (list of parameters).
- Video Title and Description: These must be wrapped into the CDATA tag so that the content inside is general character data rather than non-character data.
- Video Category: One from this list of categories.
- GUID: A unique 64 character key set by the partner for each video.
- Video URL: Defined within the metadata media:content.
XML
You can also provide an XML file with the mandatory fields (title, description, category, GUID and URL). We will need a map of these items.
CSV
You can also use a CSV file using this template.
- Fill in the metadata on line 6 and column B. The first rows are examples.
- In the description, there should be no HTML language, only text.
- Create one CSV per account.
WARNING: be very careful when fill in columns F and G:
column F - GUID: this is a unique and persistent identifier of the video provided by the partner. There must be no space in the GUID and it should not contain more than 64 characters.
column G - source URL: these are the links for each video. The URLs on the CSV file must correspond with the URLs on the server. For instance, if the file is on a FTP with a login and password, the URL must contain this information. There must be no spaces in the URL.
Note: Once the excel is complete, you need to convert it to CSV using UTF-8 encoding. If you don't use UTF-8, it won't work. If your version of excel doesn't give the option, you should save your file in excel format and then open it in either Google doc or OpenOffice where you have the option to encode in UTF-8.
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