Test of video hosting sites
* Updated! *
Hi folks,
This post is just me testing different video hosting sites - nothing new to see here. If you like, send me an email with which one you think looks best. Also, please tell me what OS and browser you're using.
Thanks!
Facebook:
YouTube:
Vimeo:
(video uploaded, waiting for encoding...)
Update - it's been just under six hours since uploading the video and I'm still waiting in line for it to be converted. Really?!?
Update 2 - It took almost SEVEN HOURS before Vimeo had my video up. That's insane!
Okay, now that all three are up, it looks like they are all about the same quality. This is good, because YouTube used to be much worse than the others, but it's really come a long way. I guess I should fill you in on the background - the reason I'm even considering another provider than YouTube is because of YouTube's ridiculous 10 minute limit for mere mortals like you and me. I haven't bumped into the 10 minute limit with any of my videos yet, but I just put one together for some friends of mine from their baby's baptism and it ran just under 15 minutes. If that was for my event, I'd want to put it up on the web, but YouTube would reject it.
Facebook has a 20 minute limit which is much better, and I'd jump there in a heartbeat except that the player window is only 400 pixels wide, not configurable. Sure, I can edit the code to make it 480 pixels wide (and I did but then undid), but the video is scaled up from 400 to the new size and fuzzy, not scaled down and crisp from the 1280 pixels wide I uploaded to the service in the first place.
Vimeo's free service lets me upload 500MB per week, but no word on length. My next test will be to use some or all of my remaining 498.3MB in this week's quota to upload a low quality but long video. I'll try for 20 minutes first, and if I still have room in my quota I'll try a 30 minute video too.
That's it for updates to this post. Any new information will go on a new post.
Hi folks,
This post is just me testing different video hosting sites - nothing new to see here. If you like, send me an email with which one you think looks best. Also, please tell me what OS and browser you're using.
Thanks!
Facebook:
YouTube:
Vimeo:
(video uploaded, waiting for encoding...)
Update - it's been just under six hours since uploading the video and I'm still waiting in line for it to be converted. Really?!?
Update 2 - It took almost SEVEN HOURS before Vimeo had my video up. That's insane!
My first Blender animation - Yellow Submarine from Troy Dolyniuk on Vimeo.
Okay, now that all three are up, it looks like they are all about the same quality. This is good, because YouTube used to be much worse than the others, but it's really come a long way. I guess I should fill you in on the background - the reason I'm even considering another provider than YouTube is because of YouTube's ridiculous 10 minute limit for mere mortals like you and me. I haven't bumped into the 10 minute limit with any of my videos yet, but I just put one together for some friends of mine from their baby's baptism and it ran just under 15 minutes. If that was for my event, I'd want to put it up on the web, but YouTube would reject it.
Facebook has a 20 minute limit which is much better, and I'd jump there in a heartbeat except that the player window is only 400 pixels wide, not configurable. Sure, I can edit the code to make it 480 pixels wide (and I did but then undid), but the video is scaled up from 400 to the new size and fuzzy, not scaled down and crisp from the 1280 pixels wide I uploaded to the service in the first place.
Vimeo's free service lets me upload 500MB per week, but no word on length. My next test will be to use some or all of my remaining 498.3MB in this week's quota to upload a low quality but long video. I'll try for 20 minutes first, and if I still have room in my quota I'll try a 30 minute video too.
That's it for updates to this post. Any new information will go on a new post.