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I have over 500 unlisted (meaning you need to have the link to watch it) tutorial videos (30-180mins each) on Youtube. They are used for various programming cla
by sireat 5y ago
I have over 500 unlisted (meaning you need to have the link to watch it) tutorial videos (30-180mins each) on Youtube. They are used for various programming classes that I teach. Each gets 10-100 views depending on class size.
I know that Youtube is a ticking time bomb for those not monetizing the videos to Google liking. Enough horror stories from HN and friends.
So I would love to find an alternative but each time I investigate alternatives such as Vimeo I go back to Youtube.
Of course, I could self host, but dealing with various transcoding issues is not the best use of my time.
- DenseComet 5y agoNo harm in staying with YouTube for now, as long as you have a local copy of all your videos.
- Ir0nMan 5y agoSelf hosting is a fairly straight forward option: A simple VPS (linode, digital ocean, etc) and upload your .mp4 videos. If your videos are in a weird format all it takes is a single pass through Handbrake to make them stream-able friendly. You will have native HTML5 playback in the browser and have full control of your files and links.