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What is video hosting ?
Video hosting is a kind of service
provided by web hosting services which allow you to upload video
into an Internet website. What this does is whenever a user
clicks onto your site he can watch the videos directly from the
site. Since video hosting takes in a lot of space normally
keeping them on your personal web space does not become a
feasible option. This is where people take the services of
separate video hosting providers. What the video-hosting
provider actually does is that it stores the video in its server
and whenever a client calls for the video it streams it to that
particular location.
During the early days of the Internet people were satisfied with
static pages on the sites but things have changed since then.
People browsing the web have now become more and more demanding
and with cut throat competition putting a video intro into your
site becomes the best method to keep the traffic coming to your
website.
Another factor that has fuelled the demand for videos in
Internet sites is the mass market of camera cell phones.
Traditionally video cameras making DVD format videos cannot be
properly viewed on web sites due to insufficient memory. However
the videos shot on mobile phones can be easily uploaded and
viewed through a web site without making a compromise with
quality. Video streaming and what is required: deploying
streaming videos into your site is not as complex as most people
consider it to be it. You might be surprised to know that most
streaming videos does not even cost you a penny extra.
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Some
common methods of video streaming include
1.Hosting directly from existing web
server: normally referred to, as HTTP streaming it is
the most popular and the most preferred method of hosting
streaming videos. The main plus of using this method of
streaming video is that it does not require any additional
expenditures and it simply works fine.
2.Using the video server of your own
ISP: if the internet service provider you have
already been using has its own video server than you can
directly avail its services which relieves you from the
complexity of using two providers for a single site.
3.Hosting from a video hosting
specialized ISP: if you have a very multimedia
intensive site which has huge video streaming needs than a
normal internet service provider will not be able to do so. You
can then go for specialized Internet service providers, which
provide for very high bandwidth video streaming.
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4.Hosting
from distributed service locations: However there
might be times when your streaming needs become so huge that
even a specialized high bandwidth video server is not able to
handle the kind of streaming traffic than you need to host from
a company that has a network of distributed service locations.
They are basically data centers spread across the country to
increase reliability of service. So whatever be your needs first
get your priorities clear and zero in on the kind of service
that is most suitable for you and then get your hands into it.
If you are novice to this video web hosting business you can
always make a start with a free video hosting service. Below is
a list of some of the companies, which provide for free
web-hosting services. Most of these companies provide for free
uploading and remote hosting of video files. Video hosting can
have different access levels with one kind of video hosting
restricting the display of the video only to a particular site
only and the other making it freely available to be streamed to
many other sites. Mostly these free video services are managed
on a network of dedicated servers. This is because of there
apparent popularity and the high bandwidth uses that this sites
needs.
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1. You
tube: It is the most popular free video hosting and
sharing site where you can upload videos in any video format and
it is totally free. Registered members can upload up to 100MB
and 10Mmins in length maximum. The best thing about using You
tube is that it can play any video format like .AVI,.MOV,.MPG
etc. this is why you can upload videos from all sorts of cameras
like digital cameras, camcorders and cell phones. However if you
need high quality videos you tube suggest you send these videos
in MPEG format. What the web site does is that it converts the
video into flash format in order to stream the video online.
Also every hosted page has code written at the bottom of the
page which on being embedded in the HTML source code makes the
video run on your website. Also there is provision on whether
you want to make the videos public or you want to keep them
private.
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2. T3rbo:
it is another free web hosting service provider which provides
for different categories of web hosting which include file
hosting, image hosting, mp3 hosting and video hosting. Using
this hosting service is very easy what you need to do is simply
click the upload button on the site to get file download links.
Maximum limit of storage is 100Mb for zip files and 25 MB for
video and audio files. To ensure every one gets quality file
download speed there is a file download limit of three files for
every thirty minutes. Using the home page of the web hosting
service is very easy. in the home page of their site there are
four tabs each displaying a different file up loader for
uploading a different set of file types. The different kinds of
file up loaders are for 1. The “zip file” tab which helps upload
ZIP and RAR files.2.photo tab for uploading photos with image
sizes not more than 1.5 MB each.3.Video file upload tab4.audio
file upload tab.
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Article Contributed By: Pinakjit
Kakati
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