On: Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to Yo...

[on_and_off]

The hard part is that Youtube is actually really great at playing videos.

I have always found the alternatives surprisingly subpar.

It should maybe not be a surprise, after all they had all the time they needed in order to improve the experience.

[hiccuphippo → on_and_off]

Pornhub plays videos pretty well even in Mobile and they are just mp4 files. 4chan does pretty well with webm files except for the short length. Browsers can deal with video just fine and the experience is not so different from Youtube. Just serve the files in a format they can play.

[agumonkey → on_and_off]

There was a time where dailymotion had a shot but they missed it and failed hard on this part.

Vimeo is probably the only one that felt good (even though the average resolution being higher killed my poor old laptop)

[on_and_off → agumonkey]

Vimeo tends to really annoys me by forcing me to go to their website if I want to see the video in high def.

This tends to make me make sure to just leave the website afterwards.

[rhizome → agumonkey]

Vimeo never streams well on any of my computers, on any of my networks. It reminds me of RealPlayer how often it buffers.