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I know there are quite a few people here who are knowledgeable about emerging web technology and I was wondering if anyone could spare some advice about video delivery.
So where I work we generate and need to distribute about 300 10 minute videos once every year. Each video needs to be delivered to a unique person. While we dont need password protection, we like to make sure that the videos are not really indexed anywhere and that only the person receiving the URL can see the video (youtube's unlisted option is good enough).
The videos come out in two waves and it is about 150 videos and roughly 60GB each wave.
The 2 years ago I wrote scripts that compressed the videos and placed them on a web server we hosted and compiled URL links to be distributed.
The next year, after having issues with people not having the correct codecs, etc. I decided to encode everything as flash video and used a small flash player made by mediaCollege while still hosting everything.
This year I decided it was stupid to reinvent youtube so I tried to use that but I quickly became frustrated with their buggy uploader software( I'd queuing up a bunch of videos to upload over night one would get "stuck" and it would just sit there and not do anything)
So now I'm thinking about what we will do next year. The encoding of the videos and hosting is very labor and resource intensive but to some extent jumping through youtube's hoops is too.
Does anyone have any suggestions, pay to play or free? I'm not against paying for a service that better suits my needs and I'm not against making the viewers look at ads either.
Thanks.
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