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Serving Up Large Media Files (11 posts)

Topic tags: media, media files, storage, Webinars

Rich Brooks said
1 year, 3 months ago:
I’ve recently started recording all the audio and video from web marketing webinars I’m doing.
In the past I’ve provided the slides and audio, which were manageable from a server storage standpoint.
Video, however, is a different animal.
Looking for an affordable service to allow for streaming views and downloads behind a password protected wall. (I charge for my webinars rather than making them available for free.)
Any suggestions?
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Dan R. Friesland said
1 year, 3 months ago:
You might try http://vimeo.com/ hopes this helps.

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Mari Peterson said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@rich-brooks I’ve been researching and just started using Knoodle. It does it based on hours. I also looked at Digital Chalk which charges a one time fee of $300 and then you pay for each item purchased – $4.95 plus 2.99%. I’ll be watching this post to see what others suggest.
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Mari Peterson said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@rich-brooks I assume you wanted to pull your audio, slides and video together… my response was based on that. I think Vimeo is completely video. Knoodle and Digital Chalk were options I was exploring for delivering slides, audio and video, etc. in one place.
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Paul Wylie said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@rich-brooks You can try these guys. They are located in the UK but since they use CDN to deliver up the video it is a mute point. They do indeed allow for password protected downloads. You can look at them here.
http://www.streamingvideoprovider.co.uk/
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Laura Nugent said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@rich-brooks Our site has many many video tutorials. We control access to our videos using a membership plugin and have self hosted videos served from Amazon S3 (very secure) with our mobile versions served by Vimeo from a Vimeo Pro account.
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Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@rich-brooks, I would look into Vimeo. They added a professional (commercial) membership option back in the autumn.
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Rob Mitchell said
1 year, 3 months ago:
An associate of mine is asking the same type of question … how to host and download videos and other media. Vimeo seems like a great option (including their Pro account) and BrightCove is another option (but more expensive). My feeling is we’ll be choosing Video Pro $200/year. More to come in the next few weeks.
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Rob Peck said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Megaupload/megavideo was my favorite
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Morgan Barnhart said
1 year, 3 months ago:
To upload & download, I use Mediafire, their free & pro versions are great. Vimeo pro is also a really super option. Though, YouTube does allow you to upload pretty large files and they also allow you to keep them private so that only the person/people with the link can see it.
The Amazon S3 that was mentioned is also a good option, but can get pricey.
Good luck!
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Rich Brooks said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Thanks, all!
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