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This is probably not quite enough in many cases. You may need a search engine that indexes your videos, a comment section, a way to refer to sections of the vid
by jraph 5y ago
This is probably not quite enough in many cases.
You may need a search engine that indexes your videos, a comment section, a way to refer to sections of the videos, something that provides several versions / qualities so the video can be viewed on any internet connection but still be available in high quality when this is possible, adaptive streaming, and many other things I'm not thinking of. All that in a user interface optimized for videos.
You can probably implement a part of these features imperfectly in a regular CMS and with the video tag, but you may as well use readily-available software that do this job for you well.
If you host, occasionally, one or two videos, that's probably the best thing to do, but if you are to create a channel, you are probably better of using dedicated software.
- xwdv 5y agoAnd of course, people always forget about accessibility for those with disabilities. Everyone making their own half baked video solutions creating a more user-hostile web for the disabled.
- Spivak 5y agoI mean you can just throw more cloud services at the problem* and use AWS video transcription. It works fine. About as well as MS and Google automated transcriptions. * I think it’s dubious that S3 & CloudFront is really DIY anyway but hey, if you already broke the seal.