Anyone know of any cheap video streaming hosts?

[Kestrel]

I'm looking for a host to stream around 5 or 6 flash videos, none of which are over 2mbs each.

All of the stream hosts I have found offer something like 500mb storage space, which is way more than I need. They charge around $15 a month, I'm sure there must be some cheaper ones.

Thanks

Kestrel

[GregK]

data transfer is the issue, not storage space, thats cheap!

[Kestrel]

Yeah I don't need much of that either. Considering that my vids are all tiny and I'm not exactly overloaded with traffic at the moment.

A service with a wide range of tiers would be best.

[JasonD]

Kestrel,

Check out the new Google Video service ...

http://video.google.com

... at the very bottom right is a link to "Submit Your Video" where you'll first need to create an account, download the video uploader, and then upload your files.

Google prefers that you encode the video files using mpeg-2 or mpeg-4 codecs with mp3 audio, although they will accept any format.

The file is then uploaded to Google Video and given an ID # that corresponds to its location on the server. similar to this one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...83123695740426

People visiting Goolge Video will be able to download your video in Windows/Mac, Video iPod, or Sony PSP formats, send a link to their friends, find more videos from you, find related videos, or follow the link to your site.

More importantly, both you and they can click the "Put on Site" link for the HTML code that needs to be cut and paste into a webpage to display the video.

No additional server costs needed because Google hosts the video for you, just place the code on your exisiting websites and you're ready to go. Plus, you get the additional benefit of having your videos searched and indexed on what could become the best video search engine on the planet.

Jason

[Kestrel]

Thanks...great info. Google do everything don't they?

Although, they don't support flash files, so I'll have re-encode my files in mpeg format.