Comments on: Online Video Sharing Systems

By: Fun with Flickr Video » Miss604’s Vancouver Blog

Fun with Flickr Video » Miss604’s Vancouver Blog — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:04:39 +0000

[...] I don’t think it will replace YouTube by any means (or become YouTube-like), but since I was recently on the lookout for a simple alternative to online video sharing, I’m glad I now have this [...]

By: mor10

mor10 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:02:12 +0000

After extensive research we landed on Brightcove as our main video hosting for http://www.Dabbler.ca because they offer far better quality and a large variation of customizeable players to choose from. Of all the services available, Brightcove far oushines the competition.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens now that Microsoft finally has a stable version of Silverlight as this technology is far supperior to Flash video. I’m predicting that in a year or so most serious video content providers will have switched over to that platform as it delivers fully scaleable HD content at the same bitrate that Flash delivers unscaleable blurry mush. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

but seriously, check out Brightcove – I think you’ll be pleased with what you find.

morten

By: Ryan Cousineau

Ryan Cousineau — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:01:30 +0000

Quicktime, surrounding a fairly common codec (H.264 (aka MPEG 4 part 10) is pretty ubiquitous, but MPEG-2 is virtually universal in terms of playback support).

I know, but I think unless the video-sharing elements are the fundamental purpose of offering the video, Flash players trade performance and quality for a few pretty marginal virtues.

YouTube and GVid have their reasons for using embedded Flash playback, but it’s not like there’s that many computers out there that can deal with Flash but can’t deal with Quicktime. And if you want to support mobiles, you need a 3gpp version of the video regardless.

Well, unless you want it to be iPhone only.

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:00 +0000

Haha poor thing! Yeah I think you can put ads in Blip as well, not sure. There are really so many options, tailored to all the facets of video sharing (personal, business, etc.)

By: Mostly Lisa

Mostly Lisa — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:49:21 +0000

I use Revver as my primary video sharing site. You should take another look see, as Revver, unlike it’s competitors, actually makes you money. I use Vimeo for quick vids. I signed up for Viddler yonks ago, but didn’t receive any nice comments from Rob, so I left in a hough and never came back!

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:28:24 +0000

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By: Mike Hudack

Mike Hudack — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:15:15 +0000

Hey there,

I’m sorry you didn’t have the best experience at blip! If you’d like please give me a call on my cell phone: 646-827-9773. I’d love to chat and see if there’s anything more we can do to help you out.

Yours,

Mike Hudack
Co-founder & CEO, blip.tv