Need a site to host Video

[alanball]

Hi, this is not the normal question, but as a long time member of this group and Videostudio user can anyone recommend a free hosting and view site. I have an old family member in a retirement home in the UK, who does not have a computer or know how to use one. I have contacted the office at the retirement home and they have said they would show the family member files on there computer. I want to send an mp4 video I have produced with video studio, but the hosting site would have to be the type that the viewer accessing the site could view as the computer in the retirement office may well not have a programme that would run the file. Any help would be appreciated. I would prefer not ot use YouTube.

[Old Grey]

I have a Vimeo account, it's free, but it seems slower to load than YouTube.

There is also a VideoStudio Channel on Veoh.com, but I don't know anything about Veoh

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21085

As far as direct files, MediaFire seems good - 4shared is crap because of adds -, but that method has the problem of the PC having a media player that supports the video format.

[pvreditor]

I don't know why you prefer not to use YouTube. However, if you're concerned that loading something there will make it visible to the world, there are settings to restrict who can view a video. The logical setting is to load your video and set the Privacy Settings to "Unlisted." With that selected, someone can only view the file if they have the URL. You can e-mail a note and include the URL, and the video can be viewed with any browser. As long as you don't e-mail the URL to anyone else, no one else will see the video.

An alternative is to render the video as a WMV file, load it on a flash drive and mail it. If a computer has Windows XP or newer, it will be able to play the video. My laptop from 2005 can show WMV files, even in HD.

For other online locations besides Vimeo and YouTube, Photobucket lets you upload video, and I think Yahoo, MSN and others have video capability. Years ago, I loaded a video to Photobucket and it's still there. Just to see if I can post a link to that video, here it is (it's me playing a silly song for a holiday open mike): http://s31.photobucket.com/user/pvredit ... 0.mp4.html

Hope that helps!

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[alanball]

Thanks Old Grey and Bob great information, I'm from the older generaton and it's more my wife than me that's worried about security on Youtube, but theres a lot of options there that you have given me that I can follow up. Many thanks.

[skier-hughes]

Security on Youtube is no different to any other hosting site, or because they are popular it may be better, but more attacks are made, same as windows
If you have your own website you could host it on that and send a link to the home, or do you use any cloud services? Such as Skydrive?
Yousendit.com is another file sharing app for large files, I've used it many times with great success.

[alanball]

Hi Graham, thanks for your input, no website, never got into that, and not used any cloud service, but must look into that option. Many thanks.

[Old_Friend]

For other online locations besides Vimeo and YouTube, Photobucket lets you upload video, and I think Yahoo, MSN and others have video capability.

Yahoo has limited the filesize for attachments to either 15MB's? or 25MB's? -- maximum, (I forget which one) so if your video exceeds that, you can't attach the video to a Yahoo e-mail.

Yahoo used to allow much larger attachment filesizes, but they reduced it drastically. It's barely useful, now!

[pvreditor]

Yahoo has limited the filesize for attachments to either 15MB's? or 25MB's? -- maximum, (I forget which one) so if your video exceeds that, you can't attach the video to a Yahoo e-mail.

Yahoo used to allow much larger attachment filesizes, but they reduced it drastically. It's barely useful, now!

I think (but don't know for sure) there there is a Yahoo video service that lets you upload a video the same way that YouTube and Vimeo does. That's what I was referring to.

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[alanball]

Thanks guy's for all your input, in the end I secomed to YouTube using the "Unlisted" option as suggested by Bob, quick upload and no problem with the quality of MP4 file when played.