HD video hosting

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Faced, friends, with an amazing problem. In 2008, there are no adequate web hosts for HD video on the Internet. Let's explain.

What is a 10-minute movie in HD (720p)? This is 300-350 megabytes of video (4-4.5 Mbit / s stream, h.264, quality 75%). Imagine a 20-minute movie from a vacation in 100% quality ... And we conclude: for a sane HD-hosting there should be absolutely no restriction on downloading and storing videos (or be within 10 GB per month, for example). This time. Two - ftp is absolutely necessary. On my 512 kb / s upload, 300 megabytes through the web only once ended successfully, all the rest were disrupted due to failures, faults and timeouts. This is despite the fact that 512 on apload is far from the worst speed in the country. FTP solved the problem on the root. Further more. The embed code must include the enclosure code with a link to the original video file. In order to rss in addition to maloesteticheskii flash player appeared video podcast. That is, you must have a direct link to the original video. Well and, of course, a nice flash player with HD support in full screen mode.

In general, there are only four minimum requirements:

1. 10 GB per download per month (which is almost equivalent to the absence of restrictions)
2. Required ftp access
3. Mandatory ability to get a direct link to the original file.
4. Hd flash player

These four simple requirements are pretty cheap if you screw them to Amazon S3 . You can safely take for it 20-30 dollars per month per person and not be in trouble, turning off advertising for a very demanding and fairly wealthy public. Implement HD around great functionality and community. Take a niche. I give the idea for free.

Examples of unsuccessful to some extent implementations:

• videoradar (no ftp, poor web upload),
• vimeo (no FTP, traffic limited to 500 megabytes per week
• dailymotion (file size is limited to 150 megabytes, there is no ftp)
• viddler (does not understand Russian letters at all)
• veoh (as if it doesn't support HD, no ftp)

If the megaproved Viddler player is screwed with HD support from Vimeo, add all sorts of side features from Veoh and execute the remaining three points (in terms of traffic volume and other things), you get a hosting killer. The killer of all other HD-hosting.