Regarding Video Sites/Blogs, Uploading Question

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So, this is a question for any of you with video blogs / vlogs that upload your own watermarked videos to Youtube, Google, Veoh, etc.

As I'm sure you know, uploading 30+ videos to each site can be extremely time consuming, not to mention that it just rapes residential DSL/Cable bandwidth. However, my tests have shown that distributing watermarked videos around with a link to your site in the description is a big bonus for traffic.

Veoh has an extremely handy option when uploading a video, the option to upload from a web address (ie; crappysite.com/video.avi), instead of your local machine. So, this can be a huge time saver when uploading the same videos from elsewhere or your own server. Unfortunately, they seem to be the only video site that allows this.

So my inquiries are as follows:

1. Do you know of a way to upload to, say, Youtube via a web address instead of directly uploading from your local machine?

2. I've had little to no luck with video uploading automation sites or services. If you have, would you *please* enlighten me? It would be an absolute wet dream to only have to upload a video once and be able to distribute it to Youtube, Yahoo Video, Dailymotion, etc.

I've really attempted researching this, but maybe I've just been retarded. If that's the case, slap the dunce cap on me and point me in the right direction.

Thanks very much in advance. :bowdown:
 


I was actually thinking about coding an application to handle this awhile back but decided not to because I would have to continually re-tweak it, in order to automate your video upload to YouTube you have to deal with there login system which isn't all that hard but there upload control is AJAX based which makes things much more difficult because of there JavaScript.

See I'm a good programmer but there better lol and they in my mind purposely make a mess of there java code, its just a real bitch to sit there and rip it apart to try and find the connection details, what they called there XMLHttpRequest Objects, what they deal with an iFrame, ect...

So with that it makes it a little hard to deal with, now each site Veoh, Live Video, ect... have there own code you have to crack through and that alone could take some time but once done there is no gaurentee how long it will last for, once an update is done you'll have to sit there and re-crack there codes.

Just like how YouTube has implimented anti-leeching by passing values through JavaScript (AJAX), so if your leeching a video from there server url it will only work for about an hour before the security tokens and shit change up on you but if you can figure out the process of there security tokens and shit then your good and will only have to worry after a site update which may be tomorrow or 6 months down the road.

This is why I just said fuck it, it'll be more time consuming but a lot easier to just do it by hand.

This isn't to discourage you from attemping it or getting someone to code an application like this, I just wanted to give you a bit more insight into it from a coding stand point.
 
Thanks for your help once again, Aequitas! You'll have to start charging me a fee for the continual advice.

I don't necessarily mind uploading by hand like that. I try to make it a positive thing: "Well, since browsing is made terribly slow due to this upload, I'll work on all the things that can be done offline that I get too distracted to do when 'online'."
 
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