Comparison of video services
Encyclopedia
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable video hosting service
s. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.
Video hosting service
A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video...
s. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.
General information
Basic general information about the hosts: creator/company, license/price etc.| Service | Creator | Launched | Content License | Ads | # Videos | Views Per Day | Censorship | Multilingual | Ad Revenue Sharing | Video Downloadable | |
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| Atom.com | AtomFilms | own TOS | |||||||||
| blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
own TOS | Opt-in | ||||||||
| Break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
Break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
own TOS | |||||||||
| Citytv.com.co Citytv.com.co Citytv.com.co is a Colombian video sharing website that operates under the Canadian-based brand name Citytv, which is licensed to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo... |
El Tiempo Publishing | TOS | |||||||||
| HD share HD share HD share is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.HD share was launched on 1 July 2008.The site uses Flash Video to display content.HD share is the first website to exclusively host high definition videos.... |
HD share HD share HD share is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.HD share was launched on 1 July 2008.The site uses Flash Video to display content.HD share is the first website to exclusively host high definition videos.... |
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| Dailymotion Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
Dailymotion Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
own TOS | 10,000,000 | 60,000,000 | |||||||
| EngageMedia EngageMedia EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.... |
EngageMedia EngageMedia EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.... |
Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... |
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| Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... |
Ludicorp | own TOS | |||||||||
| Globo Video | Globo.com | 500,000 | |||||||||
| iFilm IFilm ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Ifilm.com was originally founded by independent filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as an independent film and media collective... |
acquired by MTV Networks MTV Networks MTV Networks is a division of media conglomerate Viacom that oversees the operations of many television channels and Internet brands, including the original MTV channel in the United States... |
own TOS | 2,000,000 | ||||||||
| imeem Imeem The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos... |
imeem Imeem The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos... |
own TOS | 500,000 | ||||||||
| Internet Archive Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive... |
Internet Archive Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive... |
own TOS | |||||||||
| Metacafe Metacafe Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv... |
Metacafe Metacafe Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv... |
own TOS | 17,000,000 | ||||||||
| MoboVivo MoboVivo Mobovivo is a Canadian software company that enables broadcasters and other video content publishers to distribute television shows on various devices. The company was the first company in Canada to licence and distribute television programming online.... |
MoboVivo MoboVivo Mobovivo is a Canadian software company that enables broadcasters and other video content publishers to distribute television shows on various devices. The company was the first company in Canada to licence and distribute television programming online.... |
Premium TOS | 2,500+ TV episodes | Paid Content Revenue Share | |||||||
| Multiply | Multiply, Inc. | own TOS | Text | ||||||||
| MyVideo MyVideo MyVideo is a video hosting service website, based in Bucharest, Romania. It is available in German , Dutch and Romanian... |
MyVideo MyVideo MyVideo is a video hosting service website, based in Bucharest, Romania. It is available in German , Dutch and Romanian... |
5,400,000 | 7,000,000 | ||||||||
| | Nico Nico Douga Nico Nico Douga is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-dō", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the thirteenth most visited website in Japan... |
Niwango | own TOS | 3,200,000 | ||||||||
| OneWorldTV OneWorldTV OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site aiming to Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Justice Sustainable Development etc. OneWorldTV is part of OneWorld.net an international network of centres.... |
OneWorldTV | own TOS | 10,000 | ||||||||
| Openfilm Openfilm Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.... |
Openfilm Openfilm Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.... |
own TOS | Opt-in | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||
| Ourmedia Ourmedia Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,... |
Ourmedia Ourmedia Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,... |
own TOS | Text | 120,000 | |||||||
| Phanfare Phanfare Phanfare is an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.-Overview:... |
Phanfare Phanfare Phanfare is an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.-Overview:... |
own TOS | |||||||||
| Putfile Putfile Putfile was a free file-hosting website started in January 2004 that provided video and photo hosting services. It was originally owned by Putfile Limited in Godalming, Surrey, Great Britain, and on February 6, 2007, it was purchased by ZVUE Corporation, an internet media company.-Uploading:Putfile... |
Putfile Ltd. | Text | |||||||||
| Qik Qik Qik is a mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet. Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones... |
Qik, Inc. | own TOS | 1,000,000 | ||||||||
| Revver Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
Revver Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
own TOS | Text/Video | ||||||||
| RuTube RuTube RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month... |
RuTube RuTube RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month... |
2006 | own TOS | 1,100,000 | |||||||
| ScienceStage ScienceStage ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool... |
Polarmedia UG | September, 2008 | Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... |
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| sevenload Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
sevenload Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... |
500,000 | 1,500,000 | |||||||
| showmedo Showmedo ShowMeDo is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share Video tutorials.Most of the screencasts focus on themes related to computer programming languages and Open Source software, especially Python.... |
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| Tudou | Tudou | own TOS | 55,000,000 | ||||||||
| Twango Twango Twango was an online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provided users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saved all the original media and its metadata... |
Twango Twango Twango was an online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provided users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saved all the original media and its metadata... |
own TOS | |||||||||
| Veoh Veoh Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.... |
Veoh Networks, Inc. | own TOS | |||||||||
| Vimeo Vimeo Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004... |
Connected Ventures | own TOS | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | |||||||
| VReel VReel VReel was a video sharing web site that allowed users to upload, share and view high quality videos by use of a proprietary video codec. The site was in open beta in an effort to replace the now defunct Stage6 site with a viable alternative. Using a similar style to the defunct site, VReel has... |
VReel Media | 350,000 | |||||||||
| vzaar Vzaar vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations.... |
vzaar Limited | own TOS | 100,000 | ||||||||
| Yahoo Video | Yahoo | own TOS | |||||||||
| Youku | Youku | >150,000,000 | |||||||||
| | YouTube YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... |
three ex-PayPal employees; acquired by Google | own TOS | 319,000,000 | 1,200,000,000 | . | ||||||
Supported Input file formats
| Service | MPEG | MOV | WMV | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
MKV Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 | MOD | RA RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
RAM RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
3GP 3GP 3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.... |
QT QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Audio Sound Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of... |
Image Image An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:... s |
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| blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
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| Break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
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| Citytv.com.co Citytv.com.co Citytv.com.co is a Colombian video sharing website that operates under the Canadian-based brand name Citytv, which is licensed to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo... |
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| Dailymotion Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
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| EngageMedia EngageMedia EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.... |
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| Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... |
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| Google Video Google Video Google Videos is a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content, the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube... |
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| iFilm IFilm ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Ifilm.com was originally founded by independent filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as an independent film and media collective... |
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| imeem Imeem The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos... |
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| Internet Archive Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive... |
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| Metacafe Metacafe Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv... |
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| Nico Nico Douga Nico Nico Douga is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-dō", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the thirteenth most visited website in Japan... |
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| OneWorldTV OneWorldTV OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site aiming to Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Justice Sustainable Development etc. OneWorldTV is part of OneWorld.net an international network of centres.... |
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| Openfilm Openfilm Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.... |
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| Ourmedia Ourmedia Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,... |
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| Phanfare Phanfare Phanfare is an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.-Overview:... |
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| Putfile Putfile Putfile was a free file-hosting website started in January 2004 that provided video and photo hosting services. It was originally owned by Putfile Limited in Godalming, Surrey, Great Britain, and on February 6, 2007, it was purchased by ZVUE Corporation, an internet media company.-Uploading:Putfile... |
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| Qik Qik Qik is a mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet. Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones... |
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| Revver Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
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| RuTube RuTube RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month... |
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| ScienceStage ScienceStage ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool... |
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| sevenload Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
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| Showmedo Showmedo ShowMeDo is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share Video tutorials.Most of the screencasts focus on themes related to computer programming languages and Open Source software, especially Python.... |
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| Twango Twango Twango was an online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provided users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saved all the original media and its metadata... |
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| Veoh Veoh Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.... |
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| Viddler Viddler Viddler is an interactive online video platform for uploading, sharing, enhancing, tagging, commenting on, and forming groups around videos. Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users and now requires all users to choose one of the three paid plan options... |
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| Vimeo Vimeo Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004... |
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| VReel VReel VReel was a video sharing web site that allowed users to upload, share and view high quality videos by use of a proprietary video codec. The site was in open beta in an effort to replace the now defunct Stage6 site with a viable alternative. Using a similar style to the defunct site, VReel has... |
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| vzaar Vzaar vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations.... |
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| YouTube YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... |
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| Service | MPEG | MOV QuickTime File Format QuickTime File Format is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework.- Design :The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text... |
WMV | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
MKV Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 | MOD | RA RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
RAM RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
3GP 3GP 3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.... |
QT QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Audio Sound Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of... |
Image Image An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:... s |
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Streaming Video Technical Information
| Service | Video Player | Streaming Video Format | Max size (MB) | Max time (min) | Resolution | Video bitrate (kbit) | Audio bitrate (kbit) | Stereo sound | 3D capable |
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| Atom.com | Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
1,000 | unlimited | 640x480 | |||||
| blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
HTML 5 Open Web Video HTML 5 HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development... or Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
1,024 | unlimited | 1,280x720 | ||||
| Break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
500 | 464x352 | 340 kbit/s 30 frame/s | 64mp3 CBR 64.0 kbit/s | |||
| Citytv.com.co | Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264, Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
2,048 | 11 | 1,280x720 | ||||
| Dailymotion Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
HTML 5 Open Web Video HTML 5 HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development... or Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... /Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... or H.264, Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
2,048 | 60 | 1,280x720 | 96mp3 CBR 96.0 kbit/s AAC LC VBR | |||
| EngageMedia EngageMedia EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.... |
Flash | H.264 | unlimited | unlimited | 400x320 | 260 kbit/s 25 frame/s, mencoder | 64mp3 CBR 64.0 kbit/s lavc codec | ||
| Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
150 | 1.50 | 1,280x720 | |||||
| Globo Video | Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... , H.264 Download |
unlimited | unlimited | 480x360 | 420 kbit/s 29.97frame/s | 96mp3 96 kbit/s | ||
| Google Video Google Video Google Videos is a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content, the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube... (closed for uploads) |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... , H.264 Download |
unlimited | unlimited | 320x240 | variable (24.99frame/s) | 124AAC 124 kbit/s | ||
| HD share HD share HD share is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.HD share was launched on 1 July 2008.The site uses Flash Video to display content.HD share is the first website to exclusively host high definition videos.... (in public beta) |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
4,096 | unlimited | 1,280x720 | ||||
| iFilm IFilm ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Ifilm.com was originally founded by independent filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as an independent film and media collective... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
100 | ||||||
| Internet Archive Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive... |
HTML 5 Open Web Video HTML 5 HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development... or Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... /Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ||
| Multiply | 100 | ||||||||
| Nico Nico Douga Nico Nico Douga is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-dō", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the thirteenth most visited website in Japan... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264, On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
100 | unlimited | 640x384 | unlimited | |||
| OneWorldTV OneWorldTV OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site aiming to Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Justice Sustainable Development etc. OneWorldTV is part of OneWorld.net an international network of centres.... |
100 | ||||||||
| Openfilm Openfilm Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264, On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
2,048 | unlimited | 690x518 (min) | 700 kbs (min) | 96AAC 96 kbs (min) | ||
| Ourmedia Ourmedia Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,... |
unlimited | unlimited | |||||||
| Phanfare Phanfare Phanfare is an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.-Overview:... |
2,048 | 10 | |||||||
| Qik Qik Qik is a mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet. Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
unlimited | unlimited | 640x480 | variable | |||
| Revver Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
Apple Quicktime & Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
100 | unlimited | 480x392 | ||||
| RuTube RuTube RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
h.264 | 300 | 640x480 (4:3), 640x360 (16:9) | 1,000 | ||||
| sevenload Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
1,500 | 1,280x720 | |||||
| showmedo Showmedo ShowMeDo is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share Video tutorials.Most of the screencasts focus on themes related to computer programming languages and Open Source software, especially Python.... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
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| Stage6 Stage6 Stage6 was a video sharing website owned and operated by DivX, Inc., where users could upload, share, and view video clips. Stage6 was different from other video services in that it streamed high quality video clips that were user-encoded with DivX and Xvid video codecs.The website never went... (closed) |
DivX Web Player DivX DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the... |
DivX DivX DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the... , XviD XviD Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile . It uses ASP features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantization matrices.Xvid is a... |
2,048 | unlimited | 1,920x1080 | ||||
| Twango Twango Twango was an online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provided users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saved all the original media and its metadata... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
100 | ||||||
| Veoh Veoh Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
unlimited | 540x304 | 512 | 64 | |||
| Viddler Viddler Viddler is an interactive online video platform for uploading, sharing, enhancing, tagging, commenting on, and forming groups around videos. Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users and now requires all users to choose one of the three paid plan options... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264 | 500 | unlimited | 1,280x720 | 1,600variable, average 1600, max 5000 | 128 | ||
| Vimeo Vimeo Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004... |
HTML 5 Open Web Video HTML 5 HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development... or Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264 | 500 | unlimited | 1,280x720 | 1,600variable, average 1600, max 5000 | 128 | ||
| VReel VReel VReel was a video sharing web site that allowed users to upload, share and view high quality videos by use of a proprietary video codec. The site was in open beta in an effort to replace the now defunct Stage6 site with a viable alternative. Using a similar style to the defunct site, VReel has... (closed) |
DivX Web Player DivX DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the... & VReel Player |
H.264, DivX DivX DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the... , XviD XviD Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile . It uses ASP features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantization matrices.Xvid is a... |
8,500 | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ||
| vzaar Vzaar vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations.... |
Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.263 H.263 H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bitrate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group in a project ending in 1995/1996 as one member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.H.263... , Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... |
2,000 | unlimited | 128 | ||||
| Yahoo Video | Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
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| Youku | Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
On2 VP6 VP6 On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec. It is an incarnation of the TrueMotion video codec, a series of video codecs developed by On2 Technologies. This codec is commonly used by Adobe Flash, Flash Video, and JavaFX media files.- Overview :The VP6 codec... |
1,024 | unlimited | |||||
| YouTube YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... |
HTML 5 Open Web Video HTML 5 HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development... or Flash Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other... |
H.264, Sorenson codec Sorenson codec Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ... , VP8 VP8 VP8 is an open video compression format released by Google, originally created by On2 Technologies.After purchasing On2 Technologies in early 2010, Google has provided an irrevocable patent promise for underlying patents for the VP8 format, and released a bitstream format specification under a... |
20,480 | unlimited | 4,096x2,304 | variable | 192 | ||
| Service | Video Player | Streaming Video Format | Max size (MB) | Max time (min) | Resolution | Video bitrate (kbit) | Audio bitrate (kbit) | Stereo sound | 3D capable |
Site Traffic
| Service | Alexa Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic... Site Rank |
Quantcast Quantcast Quantcast is a California based company that provides publishers and marketers with the ability to understand, deliver and reach their best audiences at a massive scale... Site Rank |
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| blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
812 | ||
| Break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
433 | 120 | |
| Dailymotion Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
103 | 59 | |
| FC2 Video | 34 | ||
| flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... |
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| Google Video Google Video Google Videos is a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content, the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube... |
296 | ||
| iFilm IFilm ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Ifilm.com was originally founded by independent filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as an independent film and media collective... |
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| imeem Imeem The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos... |
146 | 107 | |
| Internet Archive Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive... |
372 | ||
| Metacafe Metacafe Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv... |
182 | 104 | |
| Multiply | 106 | ||
| Nico Nico Douga Nico Nico Douga is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-dō", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the thirteenth most visited website in Japan... |
137 | ||
| OneWorldTV OneWorldTV OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site aiming to Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Justice Sustainable Development etc. OneWorldTV is part of OneWorld.net an international network of centres.... |
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| Openfilm Openfilm Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.... |
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| Ourmedia Ourmedia Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,... |
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| Phanfare Phanfare Phanfare is an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.-Overview:... |
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| Putfile Putfile Putfile was a free file-hosting website started in January 2004 that provided video and photo hosting services. It was originally owned by Putfile Limited in Godalming, Surrey, Great Britain, and on February 6, 2007, it was purchased by ZVUE Corporation, an internet media company.-Uploading:Putfile... |
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| Qik Qik Qik is a mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet. Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones... |
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| Revver Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
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| RuTube RuTube RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month... |
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| sevenload Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
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| showmedo Showmedo ShowMeDo is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share Video tutorials.Most of the screencasts focus on themes related to computer programming languages and Open Source software, especially Python.... |
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| Tudou | 84 | ||
| Veoh Veoh Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.... |
77 | 233 | |
| Vimeo Vimeo Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004... |
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| Yahoo Video | 760 | ||
| Youku | 49 | ||
| YouTube YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... |
3 | 4 |
See also
- Comparison of streaming media systemsComparison of streaming media systemsThis is a comparison of streaming media systems. A more complete list of streaming media systems is also available.-General:The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of streaming media systems both audio and video...
- Content delivery networkContent Delivery NetworkA content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
- Grid castingGrid castingGrid casting or gridcasting is a file and stream sharing system that cooperates transparently by using idle bandwidth on a user's computer to deliver large scale live or on-demand broadcasts...
- Internet televisionInternet televisionInternet television is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet...
- IPTVIPTVInternet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
- List of music streaming services
- List of streaming media systems
- List of video hosting services
- MulticastMulticastIn computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source creating copies automatically in other network elements, such as routers, only when the topology of the network requires...
- One-click hosting
- P2PTVP2PTVThe term P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer software applications designed to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributed video streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also come from other sources...
- Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations TreatyProtection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations TreatyThe WIPO Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations Treaty or the Broadcast Treaty is a treaty designed to afford broadcasters some control and copyright-like control over the content of their broadcasts...
- Push technologyPush technologyPush technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server...
- Software as a serviceSoftware as a ServiceSoftware as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
- Streaming mediaStreaming mediaStreaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
- WebcastWebcastA webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
- Web televisionWeb televisionWeb television, also commonly referred to as web TV, not to be confused with WebTV, Internet television or catch up TV, is an emerging genre of digital entertainment that is distinct from traditional broadcast television...