Saturday, November 22, 2008
13:14 by FoxTwo
What that taught me was that I should never stick to just 1 site to host my videos. I had to slowly, and painfully, re-upload all my videos to a new site. Upload speed, as you know, is pathetic on Singapore's broadband plans. 256K, 512K, 1MB at best.
Anyway right now I have hosted my non-gameplay videos at Viddler. However, more importantly, I found a game-oriented site to host my gameplay videos - Wegame. My gaming videos can be seen here.
It's a new site, started only in 2007. The thing I like about it, is that the video quality rivals that of Vimeo, perhaps even better! The only drawback is that it doesn't have a High-Definition format. Also, encoding videos on wegame is really quick. My videos were all converted and ready almost as fast as I could upload them!
In fact I watched my own videos in amazement as I uploaded them - they looked almost as good as the original file I uploaded! Even on Vimeo, I could see some "degrading" when they convert my videos into FLV format for use on the web. However on Wegame, I almost couldn't tell the difference if I didn't have the original video with me. As an aside though, Viddler really sucks at converting my videos. They immediately become all chunky and blocky.
On Wegame, we can upload up to 1GB per file. That beats Vimeo's 500MB per week quota. The downside is, they also have a rule that the video shouldn't be more than 20 minutes long. I have no idea why though - if you encode a video file correctly, even 1 hour can be squeezed into about 400MB without much loss of quality.
The reason why I didn't upload non-gameplay videos there was because I didn't want to take the risk of running afoul of thier TOS. Now, the thing is, Vimeo also never had a rule against gameplay videos, but they changed the rules halfway through and never informed their userbase. I hope Wegame takes note of this and inform their userbase should their rules change mid-way.
Anyway guess I found a new home for hosting my gameplay videos!
13:14 by FoxTwo
A New Video Hosting Site - Wegame
What that taught me was that I should never stick to just 1 site to host my videos. I had to slowly, and painfully, re-upload all my videos to a new site. Upload speed, as you know, is pathetic on Singapore's broadband plans. 256K, 512K, 1MB at best.
Anyway right now I have hosted my non-gameplay videos at Viddler. However, more importantly, I found a game-oriented site to host my gameplay videos - Wegame. My gaming videos can be seen here.
It's a new site, started only in 2007. The thing I like about it, is that the video quality rivals that of Vimeo, perhaps even better! The only drawback is that it doesn't have a High-Definition format. Also, encoding videos on wegame is really quick. My videos were all converted and ready almost as fast as I could upload them!
In fact I watched my own videos in amazement as I uploaded them - they looked almost as good as the original file I uploaded! Even on Vimeo, I could see some "degrading" when they convert my videos into FLV format for use on the web. However on Wegame, I almost couldn't tell the difference if I didn't have the original video with me. As an aside though, Viddler really sucks at converting my videos. They immediately become all chunky and blocky.
On Wegame, we can upload up to 1GB per file. That beats Vimeo's 500MB per week quota. The downside is, they also have a rule that the video shouldn't be more than 20 minutes long. I have no idea why though - if you encode a video file correctly, even 1 hour can be squeezed into about 400MB without much loss of quality.
The reason why I didn't upload non-gameplay videos there was because I didn't want to take the risk of running afoul of thier TOS. Now, the thing is, Vimeo also never had a rule against gameplay videos, but they changed the rules halfway through and never informed their userbase. I hope Wegame takes note of this and inform their userbase should their rules change mid-way.
Anyway guess I found a new home for hosting my gameplay videos!
