This video of Pepper was taken with my cell phone. I know the resolution isn’t good, I resized it so that there is no pixellation. It’s really just a sample and not meant to be a stand-alone video entry. I’ve been checking out the available free video hosting services out there, comparing the speed at which the videos get downloaded by the viewer, etcetera. All in preparation for food video blogging.
What I’ve tried so far.
1. YouTube. The most popular, no doubt, but the slowest too.
2. Metacafe. Great. BUT. When the video is embedded on a web page, it shows thumbnails of other videos which are sometimes “adult” in nature. Am not sure if there are filters. Still learning. The come on is the opportunity to make money from videos.
3. Vimeo. So far, this is the service I like best. 500MB per week. Free. Reasonably fast.
Two more services that I haven’t tried yet but will definitely try.
1. FoodTube. Learned about this from an e-mail sent by the site admin. Spammy, actually, but the info’s useful. As the name says, it’s for food-related videos.
2. Videojug. This service has been around for a while. A little intimidating because the quality of user-submitted videos is really, really good. Like, bawal ang low tech.
Now, I have to run to school. Deliberations on students’ grades. Whatever that means. Haven’t been to one before. Haven’t taught before, actually. Will try the last two video hosting services later.
hi Connie.
have you tried the video blog setup as suggested by Michael Pollock of Solostream? he’s got a tutorial on how to add flash video to a site. look here hope that helps.
Thank you, Feng!
Update: Feng, I just read it! Salamat sobra. I’ll try it.
Makaligo na at male-late na sa school hehehehe
Hi Connie, may I suggest Blip.tv or Veoh.com Probably the fastest uploads among the free video hosting, great quality too.
I use VirtualDub to splice the video, Riva FLV Encoder to create the flv, and then the wordTube plugin. That seems to work fine, if you want to keep the videos on your own server. It could be a lot of bandwidth usage if a lot of people are accessing them, though.
Michael, thanks. Fast and free are the best criteria hehehe
David, you’re right. That’s the major concern — the bandwidth usage. The food blog gets 600,000 to 700,000 page views a month and although I’m on a dedicated server, it’s something to worry about.
I was about to say that hosting your own videos on your site is not difficult at all but you might get hit with a huge bandwidth bill every month.
Sayang din ang potential revenue stream that it might generate.
Searching for the best video host is like searching a needle integrated with feet in a haystack. Try to upload video (rarely known) using VideoEgg or convert your video to AVI (decrease audio quality & video hue) then to FLV file (search for a free FLV web hosting like StageGold.com etc.). Enjoy.
VideoEgg? Wow, what a name! Will check that out as well. Thanks, Jon!