New alternative to Youtube

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:32 am 0

It seems that a few weeks ago Divx snuck out it's own community video site. As you'd expect it doesn't have the huge range of videos yet but it has two important differences to youtube.

1. The video quality is much, much better (You need the divx webplugin to view)
2. An easy to click download button for the vids.

Here's one I laughed at earlier

http://stage6.divx.com/How_It_Should_Ha ... video/3674

handcircus · Post by **handcircus** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:41 am 0

I think the fact that it needs its own plugin is a *huge* barrier to it growing. It will be nowhere near as viral.

Soon as they upgrade to Flash 8 Video (VP6) with a reasonable, the horrible quality of youtube should go away.

Downloading video is a nice touch. I really like the way google video do it for iPod and PSP

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:04 pm 0

Don't forget PornoTube NSFW

http://www.pornotube.com/

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:18 pm 0

The problem with these things is re-compressing.

If YouTube,Google Video ect, made it so they if you upload in a specific format of their choice, then the video could be just put up on the site as is.

Anyway, that divx site is a distinct improvement.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:34 pm 0

handcircus wrote:Downloading video is a nice touch.

Downloading the video is a fucking essential touch, the first one I tried to view turned out to be 88Mb for a 10-minute video. You're not going to be able to watch that in realtime without downloading it first.

It's downloading as a .divx file - please tell me I can just rename that to .avi and I don't need to download another bit of custom software to watch it...

Anyhoo... this is why any site that doesn't recompress is never going to be a serious contender against YouTube or Google - because people want instant gratification. What'd be nice would be a site that let you watch online in a low-bandwidth format, or download in the original format. Actually you can do that with Vimeo, although you're limited to 30Mb of uploads per week.