Web Video For Dummies
// March 2nd, 2006 // Technology
This looks cool. YouTube is a free service where you can upload digital videos, have them automatically converted to Flash format, and hosted for free.
The key feature to me is that they automatically convert your videos to the broadly-adopted Flash format. This saves time since now you won’t have to render out multiple versions of videos for your diverse audience, requires building no Flash expertise, and virtually guarantees your intended audience can actually view your videos without downloading new codecs or players. Plus it’s free!
Google Video, and a host of other companies offer a similar service, but from what I can tell, only YouTube.com has the auto-convert-to-Flash feature.
Read more at YouTube.com.
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I found a security hole/idiosyncrasy in the youtube.com service. Personally, I’d use this service to embed family videos into our secured-family website (requires login id/password). Authenticated users of our site could then share the video (even though it’s flagged as private) by clicking the “Share” button on the embedded Flash player and email an invitation to anybody. All the recipient has to do to view the video is sign up for a free youtube.com account since youtube.com makes the (incorrect) assumption that the invitation came from the video owner, rather than someone viewing a public site. Kind of weird….