I have Webshots for my pics and was looking to find a site that hosts MPG's or WMV's ? Anyone ?

My camera does Vids and just got a camcorder that takes discs.

Doug I asked this same question a few months ago. I didn't have any luck. I also searched the web for "video hosting". I didn't get anywhere with that either. Let me know what you find out, please.

You basically just need a place that lets you store files... then if you convert your videos to streaming .wmv's then it's all "magic" (no special software needed on the host side).

You can download "Windows Media Encoder" for free from microsoft.com. It lets you convert .mpg files to streaming .wmv. It also allows you to extract just the audio for .wma etc... like if you want to just show off your engine sound.

Here's a sample...

Casual Corvette Parade (http://www.macoshark.com/wmv/)

Just click on the link shown to almost immediately start playing the video. That file was a 33 mb .mpg, Windows Media Encoder converted it to a 7 mb streaming video file that starts playing immediately.

David,

Interesting, Firefox downloaded it and IE6 streamed it. Wonder why?

David,
I understand how it works. The problem is finding a "host" site. The file has to be stored on a server some where and linked. When I went out and attempted to "rent" space on a server I had no luck finding a simple solution.

I can host some vids for people, just keep the sizes reasonable.

PM me

Ok, talked to a friend who sent me this E-mail...
I use a company called www.smugmug.com (http://www.smugmug.com)

It will let you load up to a 8MB movie clip,one at a time,and its pretty cheap too,I also load all my pics for my site through them.
Heres a few more. I might buy into one of these later on,some of my videos are over 8MB(approx 30-40 seconds) and I'd like to have a server that will allow longer clips.

https://www.streamload.com/About/LP5.asp

http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/

http://www.downloadhosting.com/index.php

http://www.domainstobuy.com/index.php

http://www.homestead.com/~site/simple/silverFEATURES.html

http://www.fastdrive.org/news.php

http://www.netobjects.com/

http://www.proboards.com/index.html

http://www.acanac.com/webhosting.html

http://www.shyper.com/

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

Hope that helps!

See ya,Mark
www.BENCHSEATRACIN.com (http://www.BENCHSEATRACIN.com)

[ 02-19-2005, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: DOUG G ]

Hi Guys:

I've got some extra webspace available and I'd be happy to host some videos for ya. Contact me via e-mail at mail@barefootdave.com I'll do it for free and keep them up as long as I don't need the space (I should never need it) and you can feel free to tell all your friends to check out your pics and video. I host afew for guys on the Chevelle site ...like this.

www.barefootdave.com/aclineman (http://www.barefootdave.com/aclineman)

I'd be happy to help!

Thanks for the info!!

Dave you should have mail.

Barefoot. Just be careful hosting videos for others. Your hosting plan may include enough hard drive space BUT it may not cover the amount of bandwidth those videos will eat up when a whole bunch of people start downloading them.

Thanks Funk...I'm familiar and I have plenty of bandwidth available. That won't be an issue...but thanks for the heads up! :)