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TechCrunch: Please stop hosting your own videos

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I am trying to watch the Fred Wilson interview and it constantly buffers. I leave it for 20 minutes to load and only 5% - 10% of the video loads.

What gives?

Am I the only one having this issue?

TC, please stop hosting your own stuff. Use one of the bazillion video streaming companies. Focus on the journalism, and not on the technology.

Thanks.

I've never had a problem.

Also if you look at the source of the Techcrunch.TV page all the video links seem to point to Ooyala so I don't think they're self hosting.

(It could be something on the page itself that causes you trouble. Try this: http://vodpod.com/watch/4419021-ask-a-vc-fred-wilson-gives-b...)

I'm inclined to think that it's a business decision, not a technical decision. If I had to guess, it has to do with ad revenue.

But I agree with the problems, I hate the stupid buffering quirk. It's not as well implemented like say, YouTube.

I would be pretty surprised if they don't already outsource the streaming to someone else and its just white labaled. Brightcove.com does that.

This is front page?

I'm pretty sure they post their videos on YouTube as well.

usually work fine for me. whats your ping to their data center?

Never even went that far.

I don't see why I have to do that.

It should work like YouTube or Vimeo. I shouldn't have to be doing tracert or pinging the server the video is being served from.

This is a solved problem that they shouldn't really be spending resources on - quite frankly.

I've found Vimeo's service is terrible for Europe.

Not in my experience. Seems to work as well as youtube once loaded, and to load faster.

It never works here either (South America).

some would say the lack of video quality is enough not to watch

That's not the case in this situation.

The interview with Fred Wilson is pretty interesting...for those interested in the startup & VC space anyway.