I'm not much of a video uploader. I didn't have a YouTube account till a few months ago. In fact, I've never uploaded a single video to YouTube - I use my account to manage playlists. But today, I wanted to share a Moocher demo video with a few friends, and I decided to try using Vimeo, a popular YouTube alternative.
Vimeo's UI is simple and clean and the player itself is minimalistic and unmarred by ugly control elements. Vimeo imposes a weekly 500 MB upload limit, which isn't an issue for me. I uploaded my H.264 video file and it nicely offered to convert the file for me and informed me that I would have to wait 15 minutes. No problem at all. Half an hour later, Vimeo still said I had a minute to go in the queue. A couple of refreshes later, Vimeo is 'out on vacation' and will be back soon. Whatwhatwhat?I've only had web applications bail on me a couple of times, but the result has always been the same - total panic. An hour later, Vimeo is back up but logins dont work yet and my video is nowhere to be found. The moral of the story? Always back up your data - even cloud computing isn't as infallible they'd like us to believe. I just uploaded my video to YouTube as well - ugly player is better than no player at all.
Links: Vimeo
UPDATE: 2:35 PM - After 3 hours, my video is finally available for viewing
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