Video size whiners

[Peet]

Your logic, it is flawless.

[AF]

Your logic, it is flawless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo1wloJA ... ure=fvwrel

[rattle]

aids? in my jewtube?

I was always kinda irritated when certain people in the youtube show biz talked about you watching their ad so they make a dime off your time until I looked at the same video in chrome... some things go unnoticed when you've been married to an adblocker for years.

[PicassoCT]

there is advertising on the intertubes? And its not yet reported.

Goto write that to the youtube admins.. someone hijacked there serverice to upload advertisement videos. Sorry for the late reporting. it seems addblock was hiding it efficiently

[SwiftSpear]

I kind of feel it's appropriate these days to host every video that legally can be through youtube unless you're a company that can afford to compete with google. Let someone else do the work of worrying about downtime, worrying about weather your video works on X stupid device, worrying about compression and stream quality. Preferably someone with infinity PHD's who allows you to do what you want for free.

Nope. Youtube does not have an optimal range of compatibility. It refuses to serve videos with ads enabled if you are not using flash. Providing videos in vp8 or theora format (using the html5 video tag and a javascript ui), falling back to h.264 and/or a flash player (for older browsers, iOS and IE, which pushes h.264 due to patent bullshit) would achieve maximum coverage without much hassle on either end. They sacrificed that for ad revenue, since it's vaguely more difficult to block video ads inside their flash player than outside.

Ya, that's what I meant by "compete with google" though. If your traffic is large enough to be worried about google mismanaging/taking a chunk of the add revenue, and you're less concerned with the extra traffic simply being popular on youtube brings you, you're competing with google at a relative level. I don't mean you need to be as big as google to put you in that situation, just that for most small businesses/communities/projects who just want to put videos on their website and what not, GENERALLY their best economic bet is just embedding from youtube.