You Tube alternatives -- myArmoury.com

Bill Tsafa · Posted: Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: You Tube alternatives

I am not happy with You Tube and I am looking into alternatives. I consider video an important part of training so I am putting up a list of alternative sites to see if other people here have any experience with these sites. Any feedback would be appreciated on these sites.

Blinkx - http://www.blinkx.com/

BlipTV - http://blip.tv/

Blog TV - http://www.blogtv.com/

Break - http://www.break.com/

CastTV - http://www.casttv.com/

ClipShack - http://www.clipshack.com/

Daily Motion - http://www.dailymotion.com/us

Google - http://video.google.com/

iFilm - http://www.ifilm.com/

Imeem - http://www.imeem.com/

Izleslene - http://www.izlesene.com/

JumpCut - http://www.jumpcut.com/

MetaCafe - http://www.metacafe.com/

MeeFedia - http://www.mefeedia.com/

Mogulus - http://mogulus.com/

MSN SoapBox - http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox

Operator 11 - http://operator11.com/

Revver - http://one.revver.com/revver

Self Cast TV - http://www.selfcasttv.com/Selfcast/gotohome.do

Sharkle - http://www.sharkle.com/

STRMZ - http://strmz.jot.com/WikiHome

Truveo - http://www.truveo.com/

Ulinkx - http://www.ulinkx.com/

Veoh - http://www.veoh.com/

VideoCodeZone - http://www.videocodezone.com/

VideoJug - http://www.videojug.com/

VideoSift - http://www.videosift.com/

VidiLife - http://www.vidilife.com/

Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/

VMix - http://www.vmix.com/

ZippyVideo - http://www.zippyvideos.com/

Here are some reviews:

http://www.techkeyla.com/some-really-good-youtube-alternatives/

Michael B. · Industry Professional

Hello,

I'm fed up so much with YouTube that I recently pulled all my videos. I really like Vimeo, www.vimeo.com and will be posting all future videos of mine there. An added benefit is the ability to play really high quality video, and also upload and play HD. The one downside of vimeo I have found is that it doesn't take Flash videos for upload. I like compressing to Flash because of the space it saves on unimportant projects. In fact, the compression is getting so good with flash that I've been encoding the local commercials with it so I can email it to the agencies. Good stuff, hopefully vimeo in the near future will be able to take more formats that it does currently.

Peter Lyon · Industry Professional

What is it about YouTube that you don't like? Just curious.

Mike Capanelli · Posted: Sat 04 Apr, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject:

Michael B. · Industry Professional

There are some buffering and loading issues with Youtube that Vimeo doesn't have (Mike mentioned, it's probably a server issue on their end). A big thing though, is that I find the quality (both in SD and in HD) to be much higher in Vimeo. Youtube compresses the footage more. One thing that YouTube has going for it is that it has a much broader audience. I will admit that I do have an issue with their policies. I've had multiple videos have their audio track disabled due to "copyright infringement", and they didn't check to see that I actually did own the copyright. Either site is good though, and, like in everything, both have their pros and cons. The user interface is more streamlined in Vimeo, but the search functions in YouTube are better.

Bill Tsafa · Posted: Sat 04 Apr, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject:

Ed Toton · Posted: Wed 15 Apr, 2009 11:18 am Post subject:

Bill Tsafa · Posted: Wed 15 Apr, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

Ed Toton · Posted: Wed 15 Apr, 2009 12:05 pm Post subject:

It looks like I'm no longer correct. There used to be a setting you could change to disable the default 10-minute limit. It looks like they've set it back to 10:59 for everyone (you can go nearly to 11 minutes) for everyone who is not a distribution partner.