I am testing several video hosting options.
Today, Bitchute and Dailymotion.
Here are the results.
You like, don’t like?
Thanks,
The Saker
Daily motion:
Then there is Bitchute. I uploaded the video, no problem. You can see it here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YMz39xkJ4Mlk/
Then I realized that BitChute did not offer *any* generic embed option at all. You *had* to have either Face, Twitter,Google+, Reddit or Pinterest. When I found this out I howled in frustration! What were these guys thinking, really?! Turns out that if I ask my webmaster to install the “iFrame” plugin there is a way to embed. Sigh. What if for reasons x y or z I don’t want to install that fricking plugin?!
So far, Dailymotion looks okay, BitChute is a fail.
I will try more options here later.
Cya,
The Saker
Today I am trying a couple of other video hosting services.
Vimeo: max size 500MB. Not acceptable
Mail.ru: see below:
I hope you will avoid any video hosting service whose servers are based in the US.
Searching for video host services in Russia found this comment on a forum:
“- rutube [Видеохостинг Rutube. Смотрите видео онлайн, бесплатно]
– smotri [Национальный Видеохостинг №1. Бесплатное видео. Смотри – видео ролики и трансляции на сайте Smotri.com онлайн]
– video mail ru [Популярные видеоролики]
and many many other.
But most of the Runet users use not these video hosting services,
but the video hosting embedded into the Russian social network VK.”
There are video hosting services in China but I am not sure about any censorship.
Any substantial video hosting operation has servers mirrored around many nations.
The way they deal with bandwidth issues and outages is global placement.
Thus, some of the best data centers for their servers will be in the US, but they will be in several other nations’ data centers also.
Using virtualization software, the scheme is to assure 99.5+% uptime.
Why not have multiple hosting platforms? Embed one and put the links from the others below.
Both gave excellent visuals and sound. The embedded video (Dailymotion) is more convenient.
I vote for Dailymotion.
An shouldn’t need a special plugin. It’s just another ordinary html tag that lets you put a secondary window onscreen, position it, size it and decorate it as you see fit, and display whatever you want inside of it. The contents of the window can be just a local image, a document, a video file or animation (stored locally or elsewhere), or anything else that would normally appear on a regular webpage.
Maybe it’s just my problem, but I can’t change the quality of the video on Bitchute. I can do so on Dailymotion. At 480p the quality is good.
I support AriusArmenian’s idea about video host services outside the US.
The embedded Dailymotion clip played fine. The Bitchute link load stalled and have to be restarted.
According to Wikipedia Dailymotion is owned by Vivendi that owns the French TV channel and movie producer Canal+ Group.
how about vimeo…?
Vimeo is a great upload site, but the work has to be all one’s own creation. There could be copyright problems if a person uploaded something like a tv show with added subtitles.
BTW, Dailymotion deletes videos, and accounts, over copyright issues, as well. I don’t think they are as anal about it as youtube, though.
The dailymotion embed code is an iframe tag. YouTube works the same way. And WordPress now natively supports the iframe tag – no plugin necessary. You would have to add the tag manually in the Text view of the new post.
View the source for this page and see what embeds the first video – not sure how well this code will publish so I’ll break it up:
[open angle bracket] iframe src= ” [Dailymotion video URL] ” … [close angle bracket] [open angle bracket] [close iframe] [close angle bracket]
If you like a particular video hosting platform, it shouldn’t be hard to embed the video in the page.
The Saker,
Whilst there are numerous alternatives, unless you are subjected to the most outrageous censorship (which I think unlikely), you should continue using Youtube.
Using Youtube, has numerous advantages – including both bandwidth (automatically adjusted – dependent on local users connectivity) and worldwide reach.
By all means continue to test alternatives, but if alternatives simply do not work in remote areas of the world with poor bandwidth, how will you – or the people who want to see your content – ever know? If it doesn’t work you can’t see it.
A very low quality definition video is better than none at all, as it won’t be seen if the service is not available.
By changing to an alternative, could significantly reduce the size of your audience.
Keep up the good work.
Tony
Bitchute: please don’t ever use it for us folks on limited data plans! The test vid had gobbled up 100MB in 2 minutes of runtime. They do not (and I suppose being p2p, cannot) offer choice of resolution to save data, so everything there is HD quality. For this same reason I can rarely watch Southfront videos.
Dailymotion: The embed does not work on my Chromium browser, it must be my issue, will figure it out but I can play vids directly on their site and I can see your embed with Firefox. Pleased to see they offer resolution choices right down to 144 so ideal for me. Theoretically with youtube-dl in a terminal I should be able to download Dailymotion vids for archiving too as I like to do with Youtube video. So it gets my vote.
this is becoming very depressing…
YouTube enforces copyright and censors on political grounds
Dailymotion enforces copyrights
BitChute is a pain to embed and goobbles up bandwidth
Vimeo limits to 500MB
RuTube loads slowly and unreliably
Smotri limits to 1024MB
sigh….
I can still try to make http://myvi.ru work
and the video service of mail.ru
I will keep looking…
The Saker
Hmm… have you tried „ok.ru“? Never tried to upload sth myself – I discovered though that there are many videos in excellent quality, at least in my field of activity (opera music).
Check out https://steemit.com/steemq/@furion/steemq-a-decentralized-video-platform-for-steem
for possible long term solution.
Kind regards
Michael
Have you looked at LiveLeak yet?
How about rutube.ru?
None of them worked for me (an older version of Safari on a Mac)
I used to upload videos some years ago, so my answer is horribly out of date. Back when Youtube was in its first years they had a 10 minute limit. My videos were one hour. I found Viddler, which had a 500 mb limit, but not a time limit. I found that I could easily compress one hour to 500 mb. Later I even compressed two hours and a few 3 hour segments. Mine was a talk show, so the video was really just an audio with the addition of people’s expressions as they talked. I was never troubled by the 500 mb.
Then Viddler turned strictly commercial. I paid for a couple years, but then I had to let my first 300 videos go. I don’t know if you plan to pay for the service. I uploaded to Vimeo too, but on the free platform they only allowed a couple of videos per month.
How about AceStream, streaming video P2P?
http://acestream.org/
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