--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should go > with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a host > such as blip.tv. > > This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so > I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than > 100) as I already have lots of content. > > I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I > could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? > Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! > > Thanks. > > * DF
I think it is a question of what you see as the purpose of your site or vlog. Blip was great for me to start off with and I owe them a lot. But I soon decided that I wanted to explore one subject in depth through video and text and I switched to a conent management system, iJoomla because it had the flexibility I wanted in designing my own site. I host the site, http://hestakaup.com, on Dreamhost and have no complaints. It may be one of the narrowest-niche sites on the internet, about Icelandic horses, but it allows me the freedom to explore a subject with minimal software constraints. In fact, I don't know whether my site is still a "vlog". I have streaming videos integrated with text and I organize the content with a menu system rather than a time-line. Thus, there are no archives to dig through. I would do some serious thinking about formats. If you have a target audience that is going to download, then QT formats are fine. But if you want to allow people to stream (as I do), then I think Flash is much better at a 512 kbs bitrate with an embedded player. I use On2 Flix Pro for encoding. You can see samples of what I mean on http://hestakaup.com Whatever you do, good luck! Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
