Audio and Video

 

Audio and Video Audio MediaMaster Streaming Video iFood.tv YouTube Veoh Google Video Yahoo!Video Metacafe

 

 

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Audio

 

MediaMaster

http://www.mediamaster.com/

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- Upload your music collections

- Listen to your songs on its site

- Embed its flash-based player to your blog or site

 

Comments: Cool player and widget provided, the player on its site is actually quite similar to iTunes, loading speed of the audio/site is quite fast.

 

Streaming Video

To download streaming video from these sites, please view skills - How-to

 

iFood.tv

http://www.ifoods.tv/

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( Video on the left and the recipe on the right )

 

 

- Cooking video sharing

- Watch Niall Harbison, ifood.tv chef videos

- Paid for professional video unavailable to others

 

Comments: Step by step cooking video sharing, video streaming speed is fast, a clear list of recipes are provided ( for Chef Niall ). A little disappointing that I need to paid for the premium account for viewing professional video

 

YouTube

http://youtube.com

 

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- Acquired by Google

- Lots of cartoons, music videos, and other home-made video, some claim it is the heaven of illegal materials

- Upload video with no more than 100MB and within 10-min

- Has the largest amount of videos in the web

- ad. supported

 

Comments: Tons of videos to search for, from funny homemade videos to copyrighted music video/anime/movies. The quality of the video is yet to be improved. Fast loading speed for both video and the site

 

Veoh

 

RECOMMENEED

http://veoh.com

 

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- Amazingly high quality of streaming video quality

- To view long length ( i.e. around 45 mins is considered as long length ), you need to:

1. register
2. download its Veoh player / VeohTV
3. use it to download the original video

- With Veoh player, you can download the exact video from the site directly, NOT Flash Vidoe ( flv )

 

 

VeohTV

- View latest drama series from renowned TV channel, e.g. NBC ( Heros ), FOX,

in return, you have to watch a piece of advertisement before the video begins

- combination of Joost and Youtube

- suitable for Mac/PC

 

Comments: I just like Veoh as the video quality is much better than that of Youtube, most of the videos on Youtube are also available in Veoh, and I can even download my favourite videos into my computer. Drawbacks are I gotta download the whole video for viewing long-length video, which is not convenient at all ( and I will switch to Youtube .. ), and it take much more time to load the Veoh site.

 

 

Google Video

( it seems Google video is dead .. )

 

http://video.google.com

 

- Quite a lot of video, you can hardly find cartoons, music video in the site

- Lots of home-made video

- Upload video ( unlimited size )

- You can sell and buy video

- can't find any MVs and cartoons

 

Yahoo!Video

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http://video.search.yahoo.com/

 

- Search for videos from the Internet, including YouTube and Google Video,etc.

- Upload video of < 100 MB and with WMV、ASF、QT、MOV、MPG、MOD、3GP、3GP2 or AVI format

 

 

Metacafe

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http://www.metacafe.com

- Just another videos streaming site