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Video Hosting
Shelley Cryan, Photographer
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New England | CT | USA | Posted: 9:27 AM on 12.23.10 |
| ->> Can anyone please recommend a reliable video hosting/playback service? I'm looking for a service that will play videos seamlessly on websites as well as ipads/iphones, etc. (html5 delivery/mobile device autodetect) and allow viewers to embed the videos at will. I know youtube offers this, but I'm looking for a white-label solution that offers more robust file management and playlist capabilities. Viewership analytics would be a plus. Thanks. |
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Mike Brice, Photographer
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SLC | UT | USA | Posted: 9:48 AM on 12.23.10 |
| ->> Vimeo.com - The plus edition is like $60 a year and can do most of what you are requesting. |
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Mike Cohea, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 10:03 AM on 12.23.10 |
->> I use the Amazon S3/CloudFront combo along with JW Player to host/view the videos I produce for the my employer's website. We originally went this way to provide closed captioning, but JW player has many other great features.
For example, it allows you to collect stats via Google Analytics with a little modification to the player.
The nice thing about using Amazon is that you only pay for what you use and it is pretty affordable even with modorate traffic.
We also use a Vimeo account and allow people to embed that way. It's an easier way to control costs for us, plus if you have the plus account the player can be viewed most places and isn't too visually obtrusive.
Here is a link to setting up a Amazon based on demand service:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/08/how-to-use-amazon-to-make-a-vi.ph... |
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Armando Solares, Photographer
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Englewood | FL | USA | Posted: 10:03 AM on 12.23.10 |
| ->> Vimeo |
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Chris VanKat, Photographer, Assistant
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Omaha | NE | USA | Posted: 10:59 AM on 12.23.10 |
| ->> Wistia has been great. It has super analytic capabilities as well. |
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Shelley Cryan, Photographer
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New England | CT | USA | Posted: 11:04 AM on 12.23.10 |
->> Great suggestions, thank you. However I need to upload videos "for commercial use," which I see is against the guidelines at Vimeo, unfortunately. Otherwise Vimeo looks super.
Mike, that combo looks good. I want to make sure I understand you correctly -- using Amazon S3 requires a separate player (you mentioned JW), so those videos couldn't be embedded easily by third parties, right? That's why you mentioned Vimeo, I assume, right?
Any other suggestions for such a service -- one that'll take commercial videos, and be embeddable, and play content on ipads?
Thanks! |
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Shelley Cryan, Photographer
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New England | CT | USA | Posted: 11:05 AM on 12.23.10 |
| ->> Looks like we posted at the same time, Chris. Thanks, I'll check out Wistia. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 11:44 AM on 12.23.10 |
->> Shelley-
You can set up embedding with any player and file hosting, it just takes a little more work.
Check out http://sublimevideo.net/ - it does HTML5 by default and can degrade to flash for older browsers, etc. You can use it either independently or on their own cloud.
If you need any help with the technical details let me know; I've been moving in the web developer direction a little. |
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Mike Cohea, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 1:12 PM on 12.23.10 |
->> Hi Shelley,
You are correct. Vimeo is easier and probably cheaper to use, depending on volume, but our issue is their lack of closed caption support. Otherwise we would embed with Vimeo right on our homepage. It's clean, stats are usually accurate and it's cheap. It just won't create an embeddable (on your site) on demand viewing service in one player, like JW Player can. Here is an example of what I mean: http://alumni.brown.edu/multimedia/booth/
You could make the embed code available, I think it can be done with an attribute of JW Player but I haven't explored that yet. You will just be on the hook for the cost of all those plays.
It is also just as easy to do using Vimeo (depends on how much web work you want to do). Plus Vimeo is a fixed costs and it gives us flexibility to handle a lot of embeds if something becomes popular.
There isn't a big difference in the features of the file management systems. Vimeo might have better privacy settings for embedding. |
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