I'm doing some quick research on how to get our videos from AstriCon available in a "reasonable" format that allows easy viewing, reduces our bandwidth costs, and allows good tracking for who/where/what is viewing the videos.
YouTube seems to have a very nice set of tools and statistics collection methods, and might be perfect EXCEPT.... Their main limitation right now seems to be that they limit videos to 10 minutes, which clearly doesn't work for our longer presentations. I could "patch" them together in multiple 10-minute sessions, but... ugh. UGH. There are other video sites out there - lots, actually. I could spend hours digging through them all, or hopefully ask here on the list and have some people give me prior experiences based on their expertise with hosted video solutions. Requirements (not exhaustive list): - free or very close to free (we'll pay, but not a lot) - good statistical collection (who is linking? how many views? how much video watched each view? where do people stop?) - reasonably easy interaction (good upload tools, good UI) - good viewing experience from North America, Europe, Asia Before anyone suggests it, I'm not interested in Torrent-based distribution for various political reasons. I've started to look at Flowplayer, which is appealing due to it's OSS nature and customization capability, but it leaves us holding the bandwidth bill (which may not be horrible, but it's a concern.) What are your experiences? I can't say we'll end up actually using what you might think is best, but I'm very interested to hear what everyone might suggest for distributing Asterisk-focused video material. In the interests of keeping this thread from getting out of control, please limit yourself to factual, content-rich posts. "I hate YouTube" or "Why didn't you film blah" is something we can discuss off- list. JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
