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Are the videos on YouTube? If they are, just copy and paste the link to the YouTube page.
I doubt it since videos consume huge amounts of storage and I dunno of any forums that allow anything but a link to videos for that reason. The best/easiest way is to upload the video to Youtube and then post a link to it here.
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Jerry is correct. I don't think any forum will let you do a direct video upload. It would take massive amounts of space unless it was compressed before upload, and hosting them on YouTube and then posting them is better since YouTube has the servers and the bandwidth to allow massive amounts of video streaming.
So the ideal thing to do is upload it to YouTube and then just copy and paste the YouTube link here. Then it will embed the video without even having to leave the site.
So the ideal thing to do is upload it to YouTube and then just copy and paste the YouTube link here. Then it will embed the video without even having to leave the site.
Your home forum? What's that...
All raw video that users here would be uploading, MUST be encoded by the server to make sure the video is of the right format and so that things like MOOV atom are in the correct place etc., etc. The reason that this is an issue is that you need a pretty massive server for the site and the video processing, or better yet a dedicated encoding service.
I'm just saying... If there is a forum out there that will let you upload RAW video recorded on your iPhone... Well then they're spending a pretty penny on servers, encoding, etc. Again, it's not that it's not possible, it's just not really cost efficient.
What is your home forum? I never knew Hillary had anything to do with Youtube unless you mean it is run by liberals. Hell yes I'll let them host my conservative/Jeep videos without cost to me, helps to keep things balanced there.
One reason uploading videos onto the internet (and onto forums) is not as ubiquitous as uploading images is simple: file size and bandwidth. Your average common-or-garden picture will be in the realms of a few hundred kilobytes, give or take, perhaps stretching to a megabyte or two for really big images or complicated GIFs. Videos, however, will be anything from a few megabytes to several hundred megabytes, depending on length and quality.
To do the math, let's assume I upload a 500kB image and a 50MB - or 50,000kB* - video into a thread. For argument's sake, let's also assume 100 people visit the thread in question, and they all load the image and load the entire video.
So, firstly, the images: 500kB x 100 is 50,000kB, or 50MB. In English, this means that 100 people downloading the 500kb image results in 50MB of bandwidth usage. This is a pretty big image, but typical of an image uploaded straight from a smartphone without processing.
Next, let's move onto our short video: 50,000kB x 100 is 5,000,000kB, or 5GB. Yes, 5 gigabytes. So a few small videos on your forum can easily make a mess of your bandwidth bills. There are also other, server-related problems with transmitting videos, but I am not familiar enough with this to speak with any authority.
The thing is, really, YouTube and Vimeo are both established, well-used to hosting videos, and most importantly, free. In my eyes, I don't personally see a compelling reason to self-host user's videos over just allowing them to upload to YouTube, which is what they already do and are well-versed in.
Hopefully I'm not disappointing that much.
To do the math, let's assume I upload a 500kB image and a 50MB - or 50,000kB* - video into a thread. For argument's sake, let's also assume 100 people visit the thread in question, and they all load the image and load the entire video.
So, firstly, the images: 500kB x 100 is 50,000kB, or 50MB. In English, this means that 100 people downloading the 500kb image results in 50MB of bandwidth usage. This is a pretty big image, but typical of an image uploaded straight from a smartphone without processing.
Next, let's move onto our short video: 50,000kB x 100 is 5,000,000kB, or 5GB. Yes, 5 gigabytes. So a few small videos on your forum can easily make a mess of your bandwidth bills. There are also other, server-related problems with transmitting videos, but I am not familiar enough with this to speak with any authority.
The thing is, really, YouTube and Vimeo are both established, well-used to hosting videos, and most importantly, free. In my eyes, I don't personally see a compelling reason to self-host user's videos over just allowing them to upload to YouTube, which is what they already do and are well-versed in.
Hopefully I'm not disappointing that much.
Holy shit it is so easy to pull your chains! I told ya"ll what my home forum was when I signed up, and Chris recruited me here.What is your home forum? I never knew Hillary had anything to do with Youtube unless you mean it is run by liberals. Hell yes I'll let them host my conservative/Jeep videos without cost to me, helps to keep things balanced there.
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