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how to host videos

by agmccall
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Hello All

I would like to have a site where I host my own videos. This would be a free membership site where you would provide your email address to gain access to a series of video tutorials. I am thinking that Optimize Press would be the theme to use but for the videos do I need some sort of player? what would you reccomend and why.

Thank You

Al
#host #videos
  • Profile picture of the author Warrior X
    If you're willing to spend a few bucks, signing up with a video hosting
    service (like Amazon S3) will make thing easier for you and a better
    experience for your visitors.

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  • Profile picture of the author guypeleides
    OptimizePress already has an internal video player. You can also host your content on youtube as not listed as a public video so that it saves you server bandwidth. Lastly, if those two options don't work, most of us use jwplayer for playing videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Brauer
    I would definitely recommend Easy Video Player.

    You can sync it with Amazon s3 and Cloudfront (for really quick load times).

    Just my 2c.
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  • Profile picture of the author paul nicholls
    I have a membership site and i have lots of videos in there

    I use amazon s3 to host all my videos

    I use fast member for the membership script

    And optimize press for the membership platform

    Everything works really well using this combination
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    To offer your videos to members you will need two things -- video hosting and a video player.

    For video hosting the standard nowadays is Amazon S3 and that's exactly who I use. It's fast, it's cheap, and it's reliable.

    For a video player I use and recommend Easy Video Player. There are other free options out there or video players built into themes such as OptimizePress but I much prefer to use a video player outside of a theme so you can put those videos anywhere.

    One other thing I might mention is that I have learnt people (myself included) much prefer being able to download a video and watch it at their own leisure. I absolutely hate membership sites where the videos are streamed only. I usually end up just finding the video source file anyway and downloading it that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author tamalanwar
    I have a membership coaching program and I use this setup,

    #1 Upload the video in MP4 in amazon s3 Amazon Web Services <- sign up for a free plan
    #2 Then make the video public by right clicking it on the amazon panel
    #3 Add this plugin "Flowplayer for wordpress" or if you have optimizepress then it should have a video player

    Amazon costs pennies, and very affordable. So I recommend you use it to save money with the bandwidth. I tried streaming HD videos with S3 + Flowplayer and it loads good!
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