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Hosting Video on Your Website and Blog

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Nowadays web trend is for free decentralized web services. Instead of centralized video tubes, social network and cloud, web developers and users prefer decentralized and free(dom) web services. This post overviews free video hosting alternatives for web developers and bloggers. It is about encouragement to your own video service right on your website or blog and embedding the video links from websites other the youtube.

There are 04 solutions and you can choose the one which suits you:

  1. HTML5 video tag.
  2. VideoPress plugin for WordPress site.
  3. Mediagoblin.
  4. Embedding links from websites other than youtube.

1. HTML5 Video Tag:

If you have a little know how of how html works then you can easily tag video in following steps.

  1. Create/Select your video and convert it in ogg format from Online Video Converter website or from firefogg.org.
  2. Upload the video in .ogg extension to desired web folder of your website.
  3. Use it in video tag. 
    <video width="320" height="240" src="..//bin/edit/myvideofiles/video.ogv"></video>

    and save your Web page.

  4. For fallback mode, in case of no support for html5 in user’s browser, upload cartado applet to root folder of your website and use following applet tag with your video tag: 
    <applet archive="http://www.theora.org/cortado.jar" code="com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class" width="352" height="288">
<param name="url" value="http://myserver.com/theora.ogv" />
<param name="framerate" value="29" />
<param name="keepAspect" value="true" />
<param name="video" value="true" />
<param name="audio" value="true" />
<param name="bufferSize" value="100" />
<param name="userId" value="user" />
<param name="password" value="test" />
</applet>

    Today all latest browsers support html5.

  5. Detailed steps are found at FLOSS Manual. The link of their website is given below in reference.

2. VideoPress plugin for WordPress site:

If you are running wordpress site which is either hosted in premium account or hosted by yourself, you can easily manage your uploaded video using videopress plugin. You can install VideoPress Plugin just like another plugin right from your WP dashboard. VideoPress Quick Start Guide is helpful resource.

3. Mediagoblin:

mediagoblin.org is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. It required dedicated web server.

4. Embedding links from websites other than youtube:

You can upload and embed links from websites other than youtube like: tune.pk, gobblin.se, vimeo.com, dailymotion.com, veoh.com, metacafe.com, rutube.ru, break.com, and blip.tv.

Reference:

  1. FLOSS Manuals.
  2. W3School Tutorial on Video Tag..
  3. VideoPress.
  4. Mediagoblin.
  5. List of Video Hosting Services.