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What is the problem of sites hosting their own videos?

Tweakers.net mentioned in their podcast a few weeks back that they had this, but that people hated the player and it was a lot of work maintaining the back-end hosting thing. I don't understand what they need beyond Nginx with an FTP drive (or whatever WYSIWYG tool they also use for uploading images with the news article) and add `<video src=your.hls></video>` into the article. Browser does the rest of the work. In the Flash era this was different but that's been a while

So I don't know the answer to our question either but according to them we're overlooking something

How about needing to store your video in a variety of resolutions for users on different levels of connections (or have the CPU capacity available to transcode live for every single simultaneous viewer)? Also, streaming video requires higher bandwidth than text/images; where you may be able to get away with a single server for text/images, you might find a CDN (with the cost & complexity it brings) is more necessary for video delivery.

The client-side player isn't an out-of-the-box thing, either-- solutions like Video.js and MediaElement.js need a myriad of plugins to approach the YouTube player's functionality, and default browser players get nowhere close. But it's the smaller part of the story, imo, because at least it's just JavaScript & CSS to deliver.

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