Yesterday I made this screencast to demonstrate three awesome new themes for Drupal 6. Of course I was excited to share it with people, so today I embarked to do something I had not yet done: upload video to the Internet. Yeah, I know, everyone is doing it, am I behind the moon or something? Not anymore. In fact, my inaugural "first time" provided a great opportunity to test as many video sharing sites as I could find. The best is Blip.tv. Aside from the great quality I especially liked how I could customize the embed code to fit any size I wanted. Here is the video, served by Blip.tv, and below are links to all the other copies, 13 in total (assuming Revver gets their act together and actually publishes it), so you can compare the quality on each of them.
- YouTube
- MetaCafe
- Vimeo
- Veoh
- Crackle
- Eyespot
- JumpCut
- Blip.tv
- Google video
- Daily Motion
- MyVideo.de
- Break.com
- Revver
Spike.com Spike.com rejected the video as spam. A HOWTO screencast about open source softare. So Spike, you want to compete with YouTube? How's that workin' for ya?
agreed
I was using Revver but switched recently to Blip.tv. I have to agree that it is the best for file uploaders/downloaders. The biggest drawback I see to Blip is that it has a smaller audience than a site like YouTube… If people are watching Drupal videos on YouTube they won’t be recommended your “similar” video on Blip… :(
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Omnisio
I’ve never used it, but I’ve seen good shows with slides and video, good for conferences.
http://omnisio.com/
For compilations of videos from other sources
I checked it out and it’s a cool site. It seems to take videos that are already online (YouTube, Blip or Google Video), and let you do mashups.
-Rob
Blip.TV hearts Drupal
The thing that sets Blip.TV apart from all of the others is, imo, the fact that they actively engage developers who are building software to interact with their site. The main Blip.TV tech comes and answers questions in the emfield issue queue fairly regularly, and they have changed their feeds more than once to facilitate our needs.
BTW- what did you use to upload all of those videos? TubeMogul?
oooOOooo TubeMogul
No, I used the click-click-click-click method. I’ll look into TubeMogul for the next video =)
-Rob
Seconded on the Blip.TV tech folks
Just the other day they responded to Agaric’s request to expose the bliptv player embed code in the feed, so that their excellent, brandable player can be used easily.
I personally prefer Blip.TV,
I personally prefer Blip.TV, but I also agree Alex, the exposure compared to Youtube is limited at best.
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