Head to Head to…Head?
Posted on July 18, 2008
I didn’t record a show last night for a few reasons, not the least of which was preparing for the GNI Meetup this weekend, but largely in part due to testing of online video services. This started out as a test of video recorded live to the service (which will still happen), but grew into placing video on the site with higher production values. Hence, this post. The three I chose are below: Google Video, Vimeo and YouTube (Yes, I realize Google owns YouTube, but they interact with the web differently). I quickly put together a test video and so all things would be as equal as I could make them, uploaded that video to each service and embedded them, no WordPress plugins were used (or harmed) in the making of this test.
Here’s where you come in, if you’re willing to help. I have my front runner based on my experience and quality checks, but I admit I don’t know everything there is to know about these services. So if you could watch the three, take the quick poll afterwards and leave me any additional thoughts,knowledge or experience you have in the comments of this post, that would be great. So without much further ado, here it is, me times three:
Google Video Test
Vimeo Video Test
YouTube Video Test
And yes, this does mean that something is coming, very, very soon… perhaps even by the next episode of the show, but I’ll say no more for now.
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Vimeo seems to be the best video and audio quality. In the Vimeo conversion to their player there’s cleaner transitions between your image and video. Less JPEGing to everything in general. YouTube has an overall graininess to their service, but it’s the universally accepted thing. Google is better than YouTube but Vimeo beats in in pure quality. I hope this helped.