Youtube Video Resolution Problem I also posted this question in stack exchange for web applications (https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52579/youtube-video-resolution-problem)

I recently uploaded three ~30 second .mp4 files to youtube. The first five seconds of them are displayed in 244p and then at five seconds, youtube switches them to 360p. I would like youtube to display them at 360p from zero seconds. This problem is happening in chrome browser with the html5 player.

It's important because I need to use these videos as advertisements for my company.

What am I doing wrong?

Here are the videos:


                
            


                
            





For some reason, when embedded the videos do not have this problem, but when watched on youtube and as you can see from the above photos, there is a resolution issue.
For best results on any Youtube upload it is always best to follow the recommended video encoding settings.
Listed here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

If you have followed those settings exactly and you are still having a problem it is a localized problem that will not affect everyone. 

Youtube videos do not play the exact same way on every computer nor every playback. 

I watched the videos and as predicted I had no problem with resolution, it was a constant 480p throughout.