I absolutely LOVE this site, I've been able to host over an hour of footage onto here, and any of my friends, in real life or on the net, have been able to watch it. The hosting gives great quality, and the best thing (in my opinion) is that you don't have to download anything! Great for people like... Well, like me, that are suspicious of almost any downloads . Summed up, its a great site overall .

Maxfelgar.

IMHO, in terms of quality, YouTube isn't the greatest, but considering that it's all free and fast, it still is quite nice. I do enjoy the fact that you don't have to download anything (no taking chances here, especially with illegal goods). There's also a nice variety of videos offered, although that probably rose along with it's popularity.

Arbitrary, if it isnt the greatest do you know of any others? Im curious of other kinds of places like this. Youtube is the only website I found to have ancient full movies streamed to watch. It has movies in good quality to not no rough a pixelated streams.

So please list some others that you believe that are better than youtube.

Well, the best thing about YouTube is that it has a lot of stuff. So the other ones that I know might not cater to your needs at all...The site I thought was better in terms of quality (but not quantity): www.animemusicvideos.org But obviously not everyone cares for AMVs, so it doesn't help most of the people on YouTube. Of course there are other ones, but I wouldn't say they're better. Like these:

http://www.streamload.com
http://www.clipshack.com
http://www.dropshots.com
http://www.bolt.com
http://www.fluckiest.com
http://www.vimeo.com

And, Google Video....

This post has been edited by Arbitrary: Jun 18 2006, 07:18 PM

Youtube is good but... Anyone cared about privacy?

By posting your video to You Tube, Your pictures to Webshots, Your thoughts and ideas to most sites you GRANT You Gave Away all of your licensing rights to your work. You gave it away.

You Gave them a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use.

First you gave them the right to use your creation anywhere in the world.

Next you gave them, a non-exclusive license, which only covers the original submission.

You gave them a royalty free license, taking away any hope of sharing in any money in the form of royalties, which is where the money is.

You gave them the ability to sub-licence, transfer, use, reproduce, distribute, this license to anybody they choose. Read guy with checkbook.

You gave them ability to prepare derivative works.

YouTube is really good. One of my friends showed me it and I was amazed. Too bad the limit now is 10 minutes! Oh, and it says that they wont give awayyour creation, andd to make sure you can just add a title and credits or watermark

~souradipm

This post has been edited by souradipm: Aug 10 2006, 02:19 PM

YouTube can be really nice and funny, but you have to admit, that it is way to waste time for most.
It became the most popular activity at my school whenever a computer is at hand and no teacher nearby. Needless to say, that there are useful videos too, i.e. we watched Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech in english today – using Google Video. But it is only a small share that is useful.
The player is not that great though. Of course, the player makes it harder to hard-copy the videos, but it also has many shortcomings (for example, if you drag your mouse for a few seconds, the movie will stop). But since Flash is the probably best spread and feature-richest player around it's cool.
By the way, anyone looking to hard copy videos from (so about anything in Flash), should get acquainted with Keepvid.com. It uses some kind of user-based ripper, works really well and you can get the movies in many different formats (even for iPods). You ought to try it out, but don't forget that there is copyrighted stuff on these video sites too, but as far as I know (at least in my country), one copy for your own behalf is allowed.

Have fun,
Ruben

Oh too bad didn't know about this. But what happened to old videos which had more than 10min length? Are they still up? I remember watching awesome snooker tricks videos (some having more than 30min) in YouTube and Google Videos. Actually, I think I watched almost all of them.

http://keepvid.com/ is really nice by the way... And I believe (theoretically, of course) that if you give away the copyright of you video when you upload, it should be no crime to download videos...

I also found the Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO) Developer's song video over there. It is real cool!

Also I recommend you guys to check out that video. It is really amusing...

Pretty cool website,with lots of interesting videos.