Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Hosting video on a site

  • 22-10-2011 1:30am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭


    Boardsies, maybe someone here can give some opinions.

    To host a video on a site, what is the best format to use, for cross-browser, and device compatibility.

    I know that Youtube have had to convert all their videos from Flash for the iPad/iPhone users.

    HTML5 would be awesome, but it won't work on the majority of people's browsers right now.

    Any thoughts, is there a solution that will cover everything??

    Thx in advance.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    There is a shim for IE browsers so it will get HTML5 tags. But as the second link shows this works with javascript turned on. People who use other browsers tend to have newer versions as seen by the monthly web counter stats. I've never used this, has anybody here tried that.
    http://code.google.com/p/html5shim/
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456886/html5-shim-fallback


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    you shouldn't be hosting video on your website.

    host on youtube and point to it.

    Let youtube worry about bandwidth, availability, storage etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭im...LOST


    amen wrote: »
    you shouldn't be hosting video on your website.

    host on youtube and point to it.

    Let youtube worry about bandwidth, availability, storage etc

    Yup, or vimeo.

    I hate it when sites use their own players. They just tend not to work as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Razzuh


    Embedding from vimeo or whatever can be a good option but depending on the site it might seem a bit unprofessional. A lot of video hosts are pushing advertising on top of the videos as well, which doesn't look good. If you can host it yourself and it won't take too long to download it looks much better to have a clean player.

    I'd recommend you take a look at jwplayer:

    http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Zonua


    amen wrote: »
    you shouldn't be hosting video on your website.
    ?? I am well aware that I can simply embed a video from Youtube or whatever (personally I think Vimeo looks the slickest for embedding), indeed that is often the best option, for many reasons.
    However this thread is about hosting video on the website.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Zonua


    Razzuh wrote: »
    Embedding from vimeo or whatever can be a good option but depending on the site it might seem a bit unprofessional. A lot of video hosts are pushing advertising on top of the videos as well, which doesn't look good. If you can host it yourself and it won't take too long to download it looks much better to have a clean player.

    I'd recommend you take a look at jwplayer:

    http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
    Thanks so much, this looks like a very interesting option. Have you used this before? *goes off to investigate*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Razzuh


    Yes, but just once for a temporary site. It was non-commercial which was handy since that player has a non-com license. It's very easy to set up and works very well.

    I haven't had to look for another one in the last year or so, there might be a fully free open source one out there now if that would suit you better. Please post back if you find anything else.

    I think H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 is the most popular format at the moment by the way. http://handbrake.fr/ is a good free encoder if you need one.


Advertisement