YouTube Video Quality - Resolution Dependance

If you’re one of those guys or girls that share their video gameplay on YouTube as a Let’s Play then you are probably very interested in how good the video looks once uploaded to and processed by YouTube. YouTube encodes every video you throw at it, every single one, in order to have it in all the available resolutions and, more importantly, in a format that can be streamed and displayed by their web video player. With another step of encoding being done, a step where you have no control over, a lot of quality is getting lost because of the rather low bitrates YouTube chooses, especially for modern games that are visually very complex. How can you get around that?