Posted by BlakeLucchesi on October 29, 2008 at 4:23pm
Which video hosting provider do you like, love, can't live without?
Blip.tv is what we have been using for the LADrupal meetings. I like it, have a few clients using it and have used it to share some of my own screencasts.(Free or $80/year for a pro account which gives priority video encoding and some additional features).
Viddler and Vimeo, I havn't used their upload features or anything but I thought their players looked really great.
I'd love to hear others experiences.
BTW: Here is a list (might be outdated) of the providers supported by the emfield module (Embedded Media Field)
- Blip.tv
- Brightcove
- Dailymotion
- GUBA
- IMEEM
- JumpCut
- Last.fm
- Live Video
- MetaCafe
- MySpace
- Revver
- Sevenload
- Spike TV
- StreamOS
- Tudou
- Veoh
- Vimeo
- YouTube
Comments
Blip.tv with cross-posting to archive.org
Long time blip.tv user. They have always been responsive to user needs and requests. Great service. Love that I can just check a box to have a copy placed on archive.org. Really appreciate their support for Creative Commons licensing, transcoding, scheduled publishing (pro feature), support for LARGE files, cross-posting to my blogs and numerous other features. Dina Kaplan of blip.tv was at our meetup last monday night at Canter's Deli and mentioned that they just closed a new round of funding and will be enhancing distribution options and services even more.
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Markus Sandy
http://apperceive.com
http://ourmedia.org
BTW
I have an emfield provider for archive.org (see http://ladrupal.org/tags/emfield). We would love to see that get added to the list but could use help with that as we are new to contributing patches.
Is there someone who has the time to take on a few small projects like this? If so, I can get some folks to provide a few bucks to cover your time.
Perhaps a Drupal Dojo project of the type that gusaus advocates? That would be ideal, as it would both accomplish the task and teach us how it's done. @gusaus, know anyone who can do this?
Also, we (Ourmedia) converted a few small modules from D5 to D6 recently and would like some help contributing back to those projects.
Please hit me up if you are interested.
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Markus Sandy
http://apperceive.com
http://ourmedia.org
Great opportunity for project based learning
Being that Ourmedia is run on Drupal, has a very complimentary learning center, and fully embraces the open source ideal, it seems like a perfect fit for those who would might benefit from real world or project based learning. Not sure if this is Dojo, GHOP/DROP, or both, but I'm looking at making this happen.
Gus Austin
Gus Austin
Awesome!
Thanks so much for the list. That is very helpful!
Vimeo is Not Bad
I've used Vimeo to upload videos and have to say it's pretty easy and straightforward to use. It's a lot slicker and more user friendly than youtube. Can't really compare it to blip.tv...but I've been satisfied with the encoding quality and time to encode on vimeo...just my 2 cents.
No .flv Uploads on Vimeo! Lame!
I just tried Vimeo for a project and my original videos are in .flv format. Vimeo does not allow the upload of .flv which was really unhelpful and illogical. I ended up going to blip.tv with a pro subscription. I like blip.tv's custom options. Thumbs down vimeo, thumbs up blip.tv
Nicole
:-p
Host your own!
Hey all, for those who are interested in hosting your own video rather than using a 3rd party provider, last year I worked with the koumbit.org folks to help develop an install profile (for D5) customized around building a videosharing site. All the info is here: http://filmforge.koumbit.net. We'd love to bring this project up to speed with D6, if anyone is interested let's discuss! Hit me up: schock AT riseup DOT net.
WorkHabit CDN2 service for video encoding
WorkHabit has a pro service that can take video uploads and convert them to desired formats through an API. Here's a quote:
http://www.workhabit.com/products/cdn2
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
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Brightcove
I do a live weekly newscast on cable in Pasadena (www.crowncitynews.com)-Joomla site we had a 14year old put together. I haven't used to many video services, but Brightcove was pretty nice. It was a bit labor intensive, inputting all the title info and meta tag info, one clip could suck up an afternoon if you made full use of all the clip tagging stuff, then you had to create a player, then a playlist...on & on. That's part of the reason why our web archives were never really up to date. Used it for maybe a year, but they're eliminating the free service so I'm looking to move somewhere and blip.tv is on the radar. I also experimented with mogulus for live event streaming and it would be great, but the stream seems laggy (is that a word?), not sure if that's for all the viewers or just me. The cool thing about Mogulus was that you could switch multiple sources live so you could have one person on one side of town and switch to another across town or across the planet in theory. We were going to try to use it for coverage for the Inaugural Pasadena Marathon, but smoke from the recent fires made them cancel it due to unhealthy air quality. I'd love to host my own, but my coding is about as good as my underwater basket weaving.
One thing about youtube, they have a huge potential audience base.