Best Vlog Platform/Script

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I'd use WordPress, but it really limits the size of media you can upload and it also does not have its own element of video processing and converting. I've found several web hosts that offer a video streaming and a lot of bandwidth, now I just need to find a platform to host everything on, locally.

Right now I am using WordPress with the Katura plugin and that simply will not work. It integrates and works together great, however Katura only allows 10GB of space/bandwidth for free and the paid packages do not provide much flexibility.

The website is I'm trying to work with is: JoeyBoots.com
 


You could try the Amazon S3 plugin for wordpress, moves the file uploads to an S3 bucket instead of web host.

that should sort out some of the speed and storage issues and give some flexibility over the price
 
winterhawk said:
You could try the Amazon S3 plugin for wordpress, moves the file uploads to an S3 bucket instead of web host.

that should sort out some of the speed and storage issues and give some flexibility over the price
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My question with this is, services like YouTube, Kaltura, etc., they are actually video processors. They convert, condense, encode, and do whatever else to uploaded videos to toss them into a format that is suitable for playback. If I upload a 200MB video to one of these video services, it certainly isn't 200MB when it's being played back. If I upload it to Amazon, I'm uploading a raw video that will not be changed at all, right? I'd have to upload these videos to Amazon, install some sort of flash/HTML5 video player plugin for WordPress, but then when the videos get played back they're in their raw format at a huge file size, is that correct?
 
That is true, you would need to do the optimising yourself unfortunately. Get your hands on a FLV encoder program and that should do all the work for you in that case and there are plugins for WP that can make the upload and playback easy.

Othersise, I've used blip.tv and never had any problems with it.

All in all it depends which route you want to go down
 
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