What is the word that comes in mind first when you have to find a video? No doubt it is YouTube; the most popular and largest host site where video files are shared. This fabulous site uses some simple technology like Adobe flash player, HTML5 and provides millions of people to share there videos easily. It has begun a new era in video sharing and video converting mp4 to mov.

YouToube was founded in February 2005 by some former paypal employers. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim are the names behind this giant. Its main branches are situated in San Bruno and Califfornia.

It has a great diversity in contents generated by its users. TV clips, Music videos, home made amateur videos and many more categories are provided here so that it is painless to find anything here. YouTube video library is well associated with necessary links and sorted in alphabetically. It feels like my personal micro blog site sometimes.

For users comfort every necessary type of guidelines are available. I personally from my experience can tell you, the "YouTube Essentials" page will provide everything you need. You can get everything needed to participate in YouTube community from its Community Guidelines. The career page offers you to get job and make money in YouTube. Sunglasses, T-shirts and many other accessories of YouTube brand are available in "Merchandise" page.

For a new user, there are some basic tips before uploading the first piece of video in Creators' Corner page. So, you need to find a theme first. The "Find inspiration." page will let you know about a lot of project themes. Now you need to process your video file. No problem! Go to "Edit my footage" section. Then, "Optimize my video" page will help you to choose the best part of your video. Learn how upload videos in "Upload my video" page. So you need to get attention of people on your video now. "Get social" page will solve your confusion about where to publish it. "Feature Kit" is here to provide you additional features and tools you may like to use. There is lot more helping pages to sort out any problem.
The default resolution for a video file provided first in YouTube was 320*240. The Sorenson Spark codec was used along with mono mp3 audio. In present YouTube offers a wide range of high quality levels of video and audio. From july 2009 YouTube offers its users to upload 3d videos also.

The most interesting feature is anyone can see a video that is uploaded here, out of the site. It can be linked in Facebook, twitter and many more. It also shows the ranking, number of views and other statistics in footnote of the video. The Smartphone which uses RTSP streaming can easily access in YouTube and view videos.

YouTube has a great privacy policy and provides both private and open location to post your video. It is true that some incompleteness is present till now. Some times people are being exposed unwontedly, but it is a great media for video sharing above all.