If you really want control over what's happening, use Amazon's S3
service for storage and hosting the videos, and manage the video process
yourself. It's more work, but not expensive (I mean, I pay Amazon a few
pennies a month; I'm thinking someday I'll be paying $20 a month; it's
cheap.)



You'd have to process the video yourself (fairly simple with free tools
like SUPER) and use a Flash video player (many FLV tools available, also
free for the most part)



Doing that, you own the whole process and don't have to muck with
YouTube. I do occasionally use YouTube, but I'm moving toward all my own
tools because I want the control.



Defeating YouTube's tools (links, recommendations, etc.) is risky
business. They allow you to use their processing, hosting and bandwidth
free for a reason, right?



There are also paid video services that give you fantastic control, but
they can be pricey. With fairly simple technical skills, one can own the
whole process and be done with it (assuming Amazon doesn't go away . . .
)



If you're interested I'd be glad to share links and thoughts and help
out.



joel



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From: websandiego@yahoogroups.com [mailto:websandiego@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Andy Werber
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:56 PM
To: websandiego@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [websandiego] Playing video from You Tube








I've been asked to upload video files to You Tube and put a link to them
on our company's site so that our Web visitors can play them. I've been
asked this because it's supposed to save on our bandwidth.

I know how to embed the HTML to do what I've been asked. But, when I
play the video, You Tube displays some kind of links to other 'related'
videos at the end of the video. My boss saw this site:
http://www.jaeger-flyfishing.com/summer.htm,
<http://www.jaeger-flyfishing.com/summer.htm,> where it looks like
they're playing a video from You Tube, but there are no 'links' at the
end.

First, is the assumption about saving bandwidth correct? Second, how do
I play a video from You Tube (or some other site) so that the video does
not get changed?

Thanks,
Andrew

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