User:Ankursinha/Video locations analysis

For the fedora videos, I was tasked with going through the various options for publishing videos. This page lists my findings.

Summary

 * Archive.org looks like the best candidate :)

On Fedora infrastructure

 * http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/videos/
 * Will need to set up infra for this.

YouTube

 * YouTube Privacy note
 * Google: Search logs
 * Google privacy FAQ
 * Google: dashboard control "What does Google know about me?"
 * Sharing on YouTube is very simple, and it lets you embed its videos
 * HTML5 on youtube: You need to sign up for the trial currently. If the video isn't supported by HTML5, they default to flash. (h.264 and WebM)
 * Embedding using HTML5
 * It appears one can disable advertisements by using the Ad preferences page, though I haven't tried it yet.
 * As far as privacy is concerned, Google stores/logs data to "improve" its services and to make recommendations to its users.
 * On downloading videos from YouTube: Only permitted if YouTube provides a "download link". However, this page says one can only download their own videos. I have asked a question on their forums to clarify if CC licensed videos can be downloaded or not.
 * Apparently, the CC licensing is to enable people to use the YouTube online editor. Downloading is still against TOS.
 * Videos on YouTube can be licensed as CC. This needs to be done explicitly while uploading.
 * YouTube has subtitle support
 * YouTube makes use of Google Translate to automatically translate captions into different languages. Question 4 on this page
 * Reviews permitted
 * Subscriptions permitted

The privacy and ads may be an issue. HTML5 not being default yet maybe another one. However, captions, automatic translation etc would be good to have. Of course, we need to wait until we know if our CC licensed videos can be downloaded.

Archive.org

 * Movies FAQ: "Uploaders may designate whether or not an item has a CC License"
 * Stuff can be streamed, also embedded, in both flash and non flash formats. (Not tested this yet)
 * Example
 * Auto detection of multiple subtitles
 * HTML5 support
 * Playlist support
 * Downloading permitted
 * OGG theora sources supported
 * No upload limit.
 * No sign up required to view videos/download. Membership required to upload videos only. (We could make a fedora-videos account for the purpose)
 * Reviews permitted
 * Signed up folks can bookmark videos
 * RSS feeds (I'm guessing we can use this with filters on tags to enable folks to subscribe)
 * Category for OpenSource videos

Looks great! :D

Vimeo

 * Membership required
 * Basic (Non pro members) have an phttp://vimeo.com/faq#comparison upload limit of 500mb a week]. This makes it difficult to use a single account to upload videos.
 * Adverts for basic users.
 * Downloading permitted
 * Embed support. (HTML5 also)
 * Also use user data for customizing and improving their systems like YouTube.
 * May allow third party sites to use data too.
 * One can choose to not share data.
 * Mostly for arts etc., not so much for tech tutorials (may be against the guidelines altogether!)
 * Supports CC
 * Mobile version (not for basic users)
 * Doesnt look like it has native support for subtext/captions (cannot use srt files etc). (Found a feature request)

Veoh

 * Advertisements
 * Registration not generally required to view. Required to upload
 * Need Veoh client to download?
 * No upload limit
 * More for movies/shows, not so much tech tutorials
 * web player
 * Because videos over 30 minutes require that the Veoh Web Player be installed, embedded videos must be less than 30 minutes in length to play. From the embedding/sharing FAQ
 * iframe support
 * Subtitles/captions: couldn't find anything