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Videopress
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Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware.
I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding a hosting solution that can cope with the size of the files I am wanting to upload; and which is accessible within the organisations that need to see them.
It turns out that my usual favourite choice, Vimeo, is blocked in a hell of a lot of places.
Well, VideoPress looks like it might be worth looking into. It’s been created by Automattic, the guys behind WordPress and various other cool things. It’s a video upload and hosting service that uses WordPress.com as its back end, as far as I can tell. But you can embed your videos wherever you like.
Here’s a video explaining more.
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good find! A lot of the problem with uploading video is also that the user can’t shrink the files small enough to upload, especially in rural areas. (just thought I would add that even though off topic)
Dave - thanks for this - will try it out. Will need to check it out on the CoP platform to see if we can overcome the problems you had with Vimeo.
Steve - Gordon and I did try it, and no, it didn’t work!