Hmm, I can't help thinking this is a foolish move.

I'd always been rather dubious about DivX in the past, partly because of its porn-and-piracy image in it's early days, and partly because of the reported difficulties of using it with Vegas, but a few months ago someone showed me some truly spectacular video they had produced and posted on Stage6 and I was so impressed by the quality that I decided I would have to drop my previous objections to DivX and install the software on my own machine. Without Stage6 I would never have done this.

Mark

Well, does anyone know of any alternatives that do not limit file size or length?

j razz

Well you can get the best results by hosting your own video. Next to that, Vimeo looks really good.

Well you can get the best results by hosting your own video. Next to that, Vimeo looks really good.
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Vimeo has changed. At one time you could put up with their crappy flash conversions yet still post a link to the original video file you uploaded for playing. Now you have to be a member to download the original file. So if I post a link here to the video it generates an error message - Sorry, you have to be logged in to download videos. Also Vimeo will not allow you to upload your own flash videos. They now have an HD section, but I haven't used it. Maybe Laurence knows about it.
You will probably have to pay for Video Hosting one way or the other. Streamload is one of the more popular ones. It seems reasonably priced and provides decent service although they are now MediaMax. Seems the same,

The future is in paid web not free. The internet as we know it will change dramatically over the next 8 years after the news media elects John McCain as president using a hapless public as button pushers next November. First the television stations were bought up by five large corporations(thanks to efforts by media hero Ronald Reagan), then Republicans allowed radio stations to be bought up by corporations like Clear Channel, and most recently (December 18, 2007) the Bush administration used the FCC to allow television stations to buy up all the local newspapers. That leaves the final information leak to plug up - Net Neutrality will disappear in the next four to eight years under Republican control and the news media will convince most of us that we will benefit from it. You won't be able to verify what you suspect are Republican government lies told via newspaper, radio, and television media as truth and you will have to pay a lot more for what you take for granted now as the same corporations who control the airwaves and the newspapers will then control the internet.

To make a long story short JRAZ the paid video hosting services are a bargain right now.

John

I signed up to Vimeo but haven't had a chance to use it myself yet. I do know that I've seen some wonderful looking stuff on their site. I don't know what hoops they had to jump through to get there.

Here is a list (it will only be up as long as Stage6 remains).

I am going to give blip.tv a try as it accepts DivX files up to 1 gig and appears to not have a time length limit or weekly upload quota like Vimeo.

My problem is that I have videos over 10 minutes and the sites I would upload to either restrict you to 10 minutes or have a small upload quota.

j razz

I have one file on Vimeo and it was like pulling teeth to get a HD file down below 500 megs. (I converted it to DivX first and restricted the file size to 499 and it still would not accept it). I finally just uploaded a non-HD file. And, for me, I can only upload about 1 file a week due to the 500 meg upload limit.

j razz

My favorite way to post a video currently is to do a wmv encode and player, which looks like http://architecturalvideoshowcase.com/Vivian/ASIS_Slideshow_Big.htmlthis.[/link]

jrazz.

Read the rest of my post. I modified it.

John

Thanks John,

I think I am going to look at the free stuff for now. I am also going to try out Veoh. No limits and it accepts DivX encodes.

j razz

And I thought I was the only one still following the "net neutrality" issue. Yeah, the future looks expensive. Right now I can host my own video and get pretty good results, but the way things are going, you'll have to pay extra for that inside track and by the money lobbyists are throwing at it, I would say that it's going to be expensive.

Thanks John,

I think I am going to look at the free stuff for now. I am also going to try out Veoh. No limits and it accepts DivX encodes.

j razz
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Yes, but someone you give a link to will not be able to download the Divx video unless they register and install the VeohTV BETA software. Veoh only lets outsiders play a flash version.

John

For anyone unaware of how good DivX and Stage6 video delivery can be, check out the following:

http://www.stage6.com/user/minnuta/video/1016588/Kaori-Muraji-'Saudade-No--3'
http://www.stage6.com/Jake/video/1113103/Jake-Shimabukuro-LIVE:-While-My-Guitar-Gently-Weeps-HD

It will be a while before we can get anything like this quality again, and never again will it be free :-(

Blip.tv does allow for direct links to the original files. I just tested it out and I was able to access it via a direct link: Test DivX Video.

j razz

I am totally bummed...

What a thing to wake up to on a monday. I was all ready to begin transitioning over the bulk of my web content to Divx and now I'm stuck with Adobe Flash video.

I guess this is survival of the fittest - who can last the longest.

RIP Stage6...

Cliff Etzel - Immersive Video Journalist
bluprojekt | ImmersiveVJcom

That's too bad, their quality was a lot better than other streaming media hosts...

Sheesh now where am I going to get my "Morning Musume" fix? Kawaii ne!

http://www.stage6.com/Japanese-cutie-girls/video/1217834/Morning-Musume---Nannimo-Iwazu-ni-I-LOVE-YOU

http://www.stage6.com/Japanese-cutie-girls/videos/Morning Musume Videos[/link]

ah well. another one bites the dust.

-k

Lawrence,
Can you list the steps you took to get the wmv to stream so easily?
The way I'm currently doing it, the client has to download it.

Lawrence,

I could not get anything to go through with the wmv file. I was able to view the player but no video. That is in IE7.

I was able to get two videos up on both blip.tv and veheo. They seem to be reasonable. I think I am leaning toward blip.tv. I also have one up on vimeo but I don't like the 500 mb limit.

blip.tv
veoh

j razz

I wonder what this means:

Videos on Stage6.com will be available for viewing and download through February 28, 2008. The Company will work with certain content publishers to migrate content to alternative web distribution platforms.
Source

j razz

I just use the code generator at freevideocoding.com

It couldn't be easier.

The other thing that I do that I feel makes a big difference is color correct using the "Studio RGB to Computer RGB" preset when I'm going to WMV. This seems to work wonders in keeping the color intensity when you are rendering to a format with an inferior colorspace.

Oh fiddlesticks!

I was proud of this artwork as well...



So, where else can host a 960x540 Xvid file?

Ah! So, Laurence, I don't GET a finished version on my desktop (eg), this process SENDS directly TO an existing Website an embedded/encoded Video file. No website, no WMV? Correct?