Blip is great if you have one show, but I have multiple shows and Blip just wasn't cutting it due to this. I had to create multiple blip accounts so I decided just to host it on my own site using DreamHost.
If you don't want to host it on DreamHost then Blip rocks! On 4/4/07, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > Daniel Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I > should go > > with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) > or a host > > such as blip.tv. > > > > This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing > terms, so > > I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more > than > > 100) as I already have lots of content. > > > > I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control > and I > > could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good > choice ? > > Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! > > > > Thanks. > > > > * DF > > I think it is a question of what you see as the purpose of your site > or vlog. Blip was great for me to start off with and I owe > them a lot. But I soon decided that I wanted to explore one subject > in depth through video and text and I switched to a conent management > system, iJoomla because it had the flexibility I wanted in designing > my own site. > > I host the site, http://hestakaup.com, on Dreamhost and have no > complaints. > > It may be one of the narrowest-niche sites on the internet, about > Icelandic horses, but it allows me the freedom to explore a subject > with minimal software constraints. > > In fact, I don't know whether my site is still a "vlog". I have > streaming videos integrated with text and I organize the content with > a menu system rather than a time-line. Thus, there are no archives to > dig through. > > I would do some serious thinking about formats. If you have a target > audience that is going to download, then QT formats are fine. But if > you want to allow people to stream (as I do), then I think Flash is > much better at a 512 kbs bitrate with an embedded player. I use On2 > Flix Pro for encoding. > > You can see samples of what I mean on http://hestakaup.com > > Whatever you do, good luck! > > Stan Hirson > http://hestakaup.com > > > -- -Jonathan Bloom http://thenameiwantedwastaken.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
