To get the best Quality for YouTube?

Hi there.
I have a question.
Which settings do I have to have in the media encoder in pro cs3, to get the best quality in a YouTube video?

I found this discussion from almost a year ago:
Drogba, "My YouTube video looks blurry using Adobe Media Encoder" #, 20 Oct 2007 10:32 am
...but the suggestions discussed there didn't help me, so I'm hoping someone reading this thread has other ideas. YouTube's PixelDestroyer® and VideoFracker® technology does an effective job of making my good footage look like it was shot through a thin film of mashed potatoes.
The H.264 codec seems to have ruination as its primary purpose. And the iPod and flv settings aren't much better. Heck, even if I export to mpeg (either keeping the native 720 x 480 resolution or shrinking to 320 x 240) my produced mpegs look great -- but once YouTube gets hold of them, they look like
dreck.
Sure, Vimeo or WhateverOtherTube service may have better quality, but when someone wants to search for a video, there's only one site that anyone thinks of going to. That's why Google bought them.

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