I abhor dailymotion for a multitude of reasons and I hope that we don't use it.
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Syrg posted: Know Your Video Hosting -updated April 27, 2009 There are a hell of a lot of places to throw up videos for an LP! Here is a handy list, with links, that tells you all you need to know about each. Try and choose two or so in case one site shits out on us down the line so we don't have to scramble and save your shit for future generations, and if you have a suggestion, point it out. Youtube Pros: New high quality and resolution options mean that Youtube is actually a half-decent host now. Not likely to crash and burn anytime soon (RIP Stage6). Cons: 10 minute limit is killer for longer-form videos. Community is horrible. Google Video No longer accepting uploads. Dailymotion Pros: Like a slightly upgraded Youtube. Longer time limit (20 minutes), simple to use, so on. Make sure to use the high quality option; the regular quality is horrible and will mangle any subtitles you have. Cons: Can't download the original file. Viddler Pros: Has low-level player resizing to fit the dimensions of your video, you can download the original to watch later/in full quality, if you're clever you can use the comments/timing feature as impromptu subtitles (but this takes some effort). Cons: Tends to fuck up subtitles which are ON the video, is a little too small to use reliably for anything highly detailed/with a lot of text needing to be read. Lower-end CPUs will struggle if you go over the default resolution, as Viddler's player resizes it in real-time for some reason. Veoh Pros: Seems a little better about playing nice with subtitles than Viddler, otherwise similar as far as I can tell so far, save... Cons: Sometimes runs a brief ad before the video starts, video isn't downloadable (at least on any I tried: it wanted me to download a Veoh-centric player to watch it in a larger window!), any video over 30 minutes forces you to use said player to view it. Gamevee Cons: Dead. GotGame supposedly is reviving it, but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. Avoid. Bonus Russian Roulette Option: Vimeo Pros: I love this site. The player scales to the resolution needed, they do HD content, you can download the original if logged into an account there (which is like a ten second process)... Cons: ...and they claim to fucking hate game videos and said they would nuke any they spotted. This is a gamble to use and not recommended by 99% of people here because despite a lot of videos slipping through past the "everything will be deleted" deadline in September, nothing is to say they won't someday finish the job. Use at your own risk.
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</html>Also wouldn't it be fairly easy, if you hate the layout of the dailymotion website (to ignore it?) to embed it on the TASVideos website somewhere? sounds reasonable to me.
Tell me how smoothly this runs, and please don't make me run out of bandwidth.
For videos under 20 minutes, An admin can easily submit anyone's work. If the video is over 20 minutes, then the creator of the movie can register themselves as a motion maker and upload their own videos to a TASVideos group with no time restriction. The only problem here is that it must be the creator of the movie that uploads the file.
Also wouldn't it be fairly easy, if you hate the layout of the dailymotion website (to ignore it?) to embed it on the TASVideos website somewhere? sounds reasonable to me.
Don't know if you have noticed but our server can't handle the load we currently have. We need ways to shift the load elsewhere, not increase it here.
