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[_] Flash video sharing for commercial use

Andy Davies dajdavies at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 15:02:11 BST 2008

2008/7/1 Tim Beadle <tim.beadle at gmail.com>:
> Hi peeps,
>
> I need to find a home for some videos that are promotional/commercial
> in nature. Vimeo.com would be my preferred choice as its quality is
> better than most, but they specifically prohibit commercial use.
>
> Any recommendations? Or shall I just convert the files and host them myself?
>

I think most of the video sites have conditions of commercial use.

I've had some success hosting video on S3, the initial startup was a
bit slower than I liked but once it was going it was fine (this was
QuickTime being shown in Second Life)

Another alternative to S3 is to use the Google App Engine as a CDN,
I've seen a few articles on this but got no idea how well it works in
practice though.

Cheers

Andy