Hosting a video

Glenn,

Change these values (temporarily) in your site's .htaccess file:

phpvalue uploadmax_filesize 800M

phpvalue maxexecution_time 600

phpvalue maxinput_time 600

phpvalue postmax_size 800M

The two 800M values should be enough to let your 700M video upload. The 600 'time' values will give your upload 10 minutes to finish (increase those if you need more time).

Be sure to make a copy of your .htaccess file before you make the changes (so you know what to change them back to).

Hosting videos is very resource intensive. I have found it best to host them at Youtube and/or vimeo and then embedding them in local websites.

Just in case your are new to hosting….

Jeff

I've thought about using ClipBucket for hosting our own videos and to serve as a gaming version of Youtube, but it would take up far too much space and presumably memory.

Since Youtube allows you to have multiple channels per Google account and multiple Google accounts per channel, it's better to go with them. It becomes an issue of reinventing the wheel. You get your own thing, but you can't really handle it and it's not going to be nearly as good as what's already provided.

Google deleted my video because of copyright on one of the songs I used. Its a video that will be lucky to get a couple of thousands of views in its lifetime and its non commercial.

Anyone know a way round the copyright or another video hosting company who arent so uptight ?

I use both Youtube and Vimeo. I have the premium account with vimeo that provides more upload availability on a monthly basis.

I have several videos that include tracks of commercial music. They have not been blocked or deleted as they wold have been on Youtube.

It is worth considering or at least a trial.

Jeff

@glennk:

Google deleted my video because of copyright on one of the songs I used. Its a video that will be lucky to get a couple of thousands of views in its lifetime and its non commercial.

Anyone know a way round the copyright or another video hosting company who arent so uptight ?
The DMCA doesn't allow hosts not to be "uptight". Either they comply or they get sued (along with the party to posted the video).

If you want a video hosting company that won't respond to a copyright or DMCA takedown request you'll need to find a video hosting company that is outside of the US (in a country that doesn't honor US requests) and that doesn't have any resources in any US territories.

FYI - self hosting infringing videos will NOT make you immune to DMCA takedown requests. Like pretty much everything on the web these days, it's all web crawlers and boiler plate sender bots.

Do you have a lot of videos? Do you produce content regularly?

Have you thought of VideoPress.com? (It's video streaming & storage service from wordpress.) Comes with premium of $60 year if you dont want any ads or companys watermark/sticker on your videos (youtube or vimeo).

Johnycage,

Thanks for the link to VideoPress. It looks like an excellent service. I'm going to give it a try.

@fos:

Hosting videos is very resource intensive. I have found it best to host them at Youtube and/or vimeo and then embedding them in local websites.

Just in case your are new to hosting….

Jeff

You should probably do this. If you're trying to get around copyright, the owners will just send C&D notices to you, and then to Linode, which is going to result in mandatory downtime for your website. Trying to host your own service is going to be extremely intensive.

You have to create a streaming service using a server like nginx.