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I actually found that this doesn’t entirely solve the problem.
For example, I uploaded my site to godaddy and found that it spouted html errors and said it was ‘crushing’ files over 32mb, when the uploader worked fine with those settings locally. I tried media files of a lot of different sizes and found that godaddy’s limit appears to be 32mb. I don’t know about any other hosting at this point

TLDR;
You still have to talk to your hosting if you want very large files or videos to be uploaded.

is that a copyright issue? I was just testing this out pre-production…

There’s a simpler solution that will work for any host because you’re not messing with php.ini or .htaccess. I know this post is outdated, but I was looking and looking, and I figured out this, which works perfectly.

open wp-admin/includes/template.php
find the function wp_max_upload_size()
alter it (I copied, then commented out the existing) like this:

function wp_max_upload_size() {
$u_bytes = wp_convert_hr_to_bytes( ‘1000MB’ );
$p_bytes = wp_convert_hr_to_bytes( ‘1000MB’ );
$bytes = apply_filters( ‘upload_size_limit’, min($u_bytes, $p_bytes), $u_bytes, $p_bytes );
return $bytes;
}

That’s for a 1 gb file size. You can make it any size here.