On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:55 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2012-06-29 16:41 Kevin Callahan wrote >> >> One of those inquiring about alternatives said he wanted to share his video >> via a simple link where the video would just start playing on any device, >> and the video was not surrounded by links or thumbnails to any other videos. > > one option to somewhat reduce the YouTube cruft and still keep it widely > playable is to embed in a webpage; i would bet Tumblr makes that pretty easy, > also other blogging packages
I told him to make a simple web site, but he doesn't want to have to go through buying a domain, setting up a host, creating a page etc. I showed him how easy it is to do so, but he wants to find another "MobileMe Gallery" with simply integration as we have in iMovie and iPhoto for sharing that, as you say, doesn't come with the YouTube cruft. He also doesn't want people to have to log in via user/pass to view his video(s). > >> With Dropbox, doesn't the viewer have to download the file? Or, will a link >> to a movie sitting in someone's Dropbox allow direct streaming via a browser >> on a mobile device? > > you can wrap video/photo files in HTML (such as with JAlbum as i suggested) > and deposit the whole "site" on dropbox and send people a URL to open it as a > web page, rather than download the file; i know people who do this often with > photos and it works well, i suspect it works with movies too > > Dropbox also has a built-in gallery feature when you put folders of photos > into the Dropbox/Photos folder; haven't tried it with movies My understanding is that you can make any DB file in any folder available to the web - so that might be the solution for him. Thanks to all who've been offering suggestions. -K > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
