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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

On-Line Video Publishing Sites Compared

The latest developments in Macromedia Flash technology now allow streaming video be played by regular Flash plugin in a browser. The cool thing about that is that almost 100% of browsers are compatible with Flash plugin regardless of the platform (Mac,PC, Linux, etc). Using the Flash technology many websites now allow users to upload and share their videos. I've tried several of them would like to share with you with what I found. I've tried the following websites:

I uploaded the same video in Windows Media Video format 320X240 30 fps to all websites and below are the resulting videos:

Not only the video is blurry, but also the frame rate seems to be low. Definately the worst.

The video is very grainy! Also half of the time it does not even come up. You may need to refresh the page to see it. TagWorld is still in Beta so they are probably still ironing out the kinks.



youtube.com is the pioneer of the mass video publishing site. The quality is better than that of tagword.com. Still is not perfect, but I guess they are trying to save on bandwidth.



myspace.com is the best out of the three. The video is played at the resolution of the original file (320x240 in this example) and although it's smaller in size, it is sharper in quality. myspace video player offers you a choice to magnify it by clicking on the right-most button and you get pretty much the same quality as youtube.com.



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Comments:
  • Guest Doug Fox wrote: Saturday, April 22, 2006 9:51 AM

    Hi Raphael,

    Thanks for doing video comparison of dance videos with different video hosting services.

    I think that MySpace uses PhotoBucket for their video hosting. So if dancers want to add video to their site/blog, maybe best bet is to use PhotoBucket: http://www.photobucket.com - but it's still worth uploading your videos to the other video hosting sites to get more traffic. What do you think?

    Best,
    Doug Fox
    Great Dance
    http://greatdance.com
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