..and I have Youtube because? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vectis
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..and I have Youtube because? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vectis
... because that was the most appropriate solution at the time :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Solitaire Entertainments Ltd
There's a fair bit of work to make the change, and a licence fee, for no real gain other than losing the youtube overlay.
If you want to delve deeper drop me an email :)
I thought there might be...:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Vectis
I'm not keen on having Youtube video on my site but you did say something about video on your actual site taking a lot of resources at the time?
....and the fact that videos hosted away from youtube won't have ads. That was the biggest plus point for me. It just feels a little bit more professional not using YouTube (in my humble opinion).Quote:
Originally Posted by Vectis
And looks a bit more professional? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
See my edit above.....at the same as you posted. :dQuote:
Originally Posted by Solitaire Entertainments Ltd
great minds eh! :D
You must have edited twice as I saw your comment and then it disappeared and then re-appeared! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
Vimeo Plus may be something that appeals to someone. I would imagine those with a reasonable amount of HD content and promotional material could probably justify the expense.
http://vimeo.com/plus
You know me. Trigger happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solitaire Entertainments Ltd
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Originally Posted by Vectis
In days gone by there was a certain "stigma" attached to using Youtube for video on your own site, but that has more or less disappeared as more and more big companies use it. Now (imho) the advantages in using your own video solution are: -Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
1) No YT overlay.
2) No ads over the video.
3) Clicking on your video doesn't take the visitor to youtube, which will then list similar videos (by other people, perhaps competitors), ads, and any videos you uploaded of aunty Doris singing "Crazy" on the Karaoke or your kid's first steps.
4) Looks more professional.
5) If your video contains copyrighted material, Youtube may do an audio substitution on it. I'm not suggesting that using your own video solution is a way to flout copyright law - but you can easily buy a license for your own site if you need to.
The downsides to using your own video solution are: -Quote:
Originally Posted by Solitaire Entertainments Ltd
1) You might have to purchase a software license for the player you choose.
2) Technically more difficult to implement than simple Youtube embed code.
3) You have to encode your videos correctly. Youtube takes care of all this when you upload video, it accepts a wide array of formats without any problems and encodes them for you. When doing this yourself you have to worry about the quality Vs file size tradeoff, as well as what format / codec to use, especially if you want it to be both Flash and HTML5 compatible.
4) Video is resource hungry, in both disk space and bandwidth. But if you farm this out (see post #29) that's easily overcome.