[PLUG-AV] rusty talk downloads

[Tim White]

On 18/10/11 11:59, Jason Nicholls wrote:
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>     Still, I think it makes sense to be keeping user within the PLUG
>     site, instead of somewhere else. (It's hard enough maintaining one
>     location, let alone the extras like facebook). In my general
>     browsing (as a Linux user who has trouble with flash), I find it
>     lots easier to watch Vimeo videos that Youtube, and in generally
>     find the quality much better. Yes, youtube has high def, but it's
>     low def stuff is still not great. And yes, youtube does now
>     support more HTML5 standards, but in my testing of this (the
>     non-flash player stuff), it's been pretty poor. 
>
>
>     These are all from personal experiences. I find I like the Vimeo
>     player better, it looks more professional (it's not immediately
>     obvious that you have embedded a video, unlike youtube that makes
>     it much more obvious).
>
>     Anyway, that's my opinion. Maybe we should try a test upload on
>     both, see what it looks like embedded in the plug website, and
>     make the judgement from there?
>
>
> AFAIK youtube quality is good and I've been uploading to both youtube 
> and vimeo. It helps to upload at resolutions that they prefer and 
> start with good video of course :)
>
> The point of having it up there is to increase viewing outside of PLUG 
> mailing list subscribers, not to divert regular PLUGers to 
> youtube/vimeo (we can just embed on our website for that - and still 
> offer the files for download). And with that in mind I think youtube 
> has a broader viewership than vimeo so my preference is there. The 
> only issue being the 15min time limit but it sounds like that can be 
> solved - I will look into it.
 From that point of view, youtube makes sense. See if you can solve the 
15min time limit then!

Tim
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