I also have a video of seared beef on YouTube, but I wasn’t happy with the quality of how it was transcoded. Revver seems to keep the original quality. I haven’t tried Google Video — anyone have experiences to share there? It *seems* somewhat cumbersome with the whole approval process etc. I can understand this for for-pay video, but my main goal here is posting my own video content and making it easy to share with people, not to make money off it. Yahoo doesn’t have a video hosting option (am I missing something?), but instead has video search. What they want you to do is submit your MediaRSS feed (more info on MediaRSS here). Judging by Apple’s success in getting people to adopt the iTunes RSS format, this is definitely an interesting direction to go. Of course, with the video iPod, who is to say that Apple and iTunes RSS might be the leader here for video as well. Oh, and I can’t forget the strangely named but very good AudioBlog.com — which is/will be storing and transcoding video of up to 100MB in size. AudioBlog.com is the best solution that I know of right now if you want to retain control over your own audio and video content — they just take care of all the hard bits like hosting and display, and you choose where to put it, without any advertising or third-party website where it lives. Note to self: activate full AudioBlog.com membership.Update: Roland did a similar exercise and also concluded that AudioBlog is the best choice, but still lacking: it needs options for links to the source video (like it does for MP3s) to avoid the re-encoding problem that degrades quality.Update 2: somehow, a bunch of people had the same idea about looking at video all at the same time; here’s the TechCrunch review looking for the "Flickr of Video". It’s missing AudioBlog.com, so expect some more noise about video over the coming weeks.
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