Video Sites???

John25S · Post by **John25S** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:50 pm

Does anyone know of any other "Popular" video sites than youtube?

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:57 pm

I just posted some tutorials to Viddler.com. I like it because it has no time limit on run length (YouTube has a ten minute limit).

I don't know how 'popular' it is though.

NetGenSuperstar · Post by **NetGenSuperstar** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:32 pm

There are no video sites that are more popular than YouTube, but almost all of them are better. I would recommend Google Video, since like YouTube, it's owned by Google, and yet it has (from what I've seen) higher quality videos, no length limitations, and fewer retarded comments.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:29 am

What makes Youtube great is that fact that... it just works... all the time without a hitch.

I've been to lots of other video sites and 9 times out of 10 the video doesn't play... or the player isn't configured right and doesn't finish loading, or it uses a codec I don't have, or the video plays very choppy and it is unwatchable.

Youtube just works. No it isn't HDTV but who wants to watch people blowing up diet coke with mentos in HD?

Youtube isn't catering to our demographic... the quality content providers. They cater to people who like Brittany Spears and text message their friends all day.

p.s. Did you hear Brittany won that lawsuit filed by the guy whose foot she ran over with her car?

-vern

NetGenSuperstar · Post by **NetGenSuperstar** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:41 am

Actually, most of the reason I hate YouTube is because it doesn't work. I'm lucky if I can get more than the first 10% of a video to load, and if I do, then it loads at dial-up speeds, and about five seconds in the video pauses for 10 seconds, making watching shorter clips impossible, and longer clips annoying. Plus the constant maintenance they seem to perform, which is obviously not helping anything.

Plus on Google Video, you're much less likely to see a message stating that your video was taken down because some random company owns the copyright on an object you mentioned.

And it's annoying that I could be watching a video of kittens playing with yarn, and the comments will be filled with comments like, "My God is better than your God," and ASCII art of an obscene gesture, and messages that will kill you while you sleep if you don't duplicate it twenty times on other videos. But that's the internet's fault, not YouTube.

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:29 am

Try this web page:

http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm

Web pages that pay you to host you video.

Dale

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:22 am

I think Youtube just started something like that... or they plan to. If the video gets popular they would kick back ad revenue. Seems only fair.

-vern