Online Video and Broadcasting

Danielle KaneResearch Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Service InnovationUC Irvine Libraries

Lunch2.0August 2009

Video Sharing User Uploads

Type of Site: MPEG-4 Video hosting service

Registration: Required to upload, rate, and comment on videos, no registration needed to view videos

Video:◦ Playback: Adobe Flash Player◦ Length: 10 minutes or under◦ File size: 2GB◦ Format: .WMV, .AVI, .MKV, .MOV,

MPEG, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, and .OGG.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/

Type of Site: Video Sharing

Registration: Yes to upload

Video: ◦ file types: asf, asx, avi, divx, dv, dvx, m4v, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, 3g2,

3gp, 3ivx and 3vx

Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/

Streaming VideoVideo on Demand

Type of Site: Commercial supported streaming of TV shows and movies from networks and studios

Registration: Create a queue, subscribe to shows and movies

Video: ◦ Flash Video format◦ films and shows available in high-definition◦ provides web syndication services for other

websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, etc.

Hulu

http://www.hulu.com/

Type of Site: Community based video sharing web site

Registration: Required for favorites, commenting and editing metadata

Video: ◦ Clips average 90 seconds long◦ MPEG4 (AVI, MOV or MP4)

Metacafe

http://www.metacafe.com/

Video SearchEntry Point to other sites

Type of Site: Free video sharing website and a video search engine

Registration: No

Video:◦ N/A◦ In 2009 uploading of videos was discontinued

Google Video

http://video.google.com/

Type of Site: an entry point into web video

Registration: Yes to add a video to your personal collection

Video:◦ Assigned a rating between 1 and 11depending on traffic and trackbacks

Magma

http://mag.ma/

BroadcastingVideo, Audio, Text

Type of Site: Video streaming, broadcasts

Registration: Optional, needed to create shows

Video:◦ A computer◦ An internet connection◦ A microphone◦ A webcam or video camera

UStream

http://www.ustream.tv/

Type of Site: Social networking, streaming video broadcasting

Registration:

Video:◦ AVI, MOV, WMV, 3GP, and MPEG

Audio:◦ MP3 and WAV

Images:◦ JPEG (.jpg) and GIF (.gif)

Stickam

http://www.stickam.com/

Type of Site: Mobile Multimedia Discussion/Conversation

Registration: Yes to share text, pics, video and audio

Video:◦ A computer◦ An internet connection◦ A microphone◦ A webcam or video camera◦ Your phone

Utterli

http://www.utterli.com/

Mobile Phones & Video

Mobile Streaming

Type of Site: Mobile live streaming web application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet

Registration: Yes to upload

Video:◦ Supports video streaming on many Nokia S60 phones and several phones running

Windows Mobile.◦ Data Plan

Qik

http://qik.com/

5 Minute Show and Tells

Virginia Allison

Film and Media Studies Libguide

http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=19240&sid=194876

Discussion Topics20 Minutes