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Sorry about making you all download the veoh player, I tried Vimeo and Google Video and neither worked and at about $0.06 a download I didn't really feel like putting it up on s3 (the original was 273MB)

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Thanks for posting this. It always surprises me how much work people put into organizing meatspace gatherings and then fail completely at preserving it and distributing it to a wider internet audience.

Unfortunately, the Veoh player download requirement leaves me a poor stranded Linux user.

/me mumbles something about download software being archaic and skulks away into the corner.

Unfortunately, the Veoh player download requirement leaves me a poor stranded Linux user.

Me too.

Is there a service akin to keepvid.com which will let me download the flv file instead?

I'm guessing their player is p2p streaming which might make it hard to download the whole file. It's probably designed to lower their bandwidth usage and get some software installed on your computer at the same time.

Stage6 might be a good option. I'm happy to do the uploading (and/or transcoding) if anyone makes the video file available. Really fast connection standing by.

I can upload the vid to s3 tonight and can link a few people if you won't pass the link around. If you're on linux and really want to watch this email me (addredss is in my profile)

Sorry about making you download the Veoh player, I tried Vimeo and Google Video and neither would upload right and for a download 273MB download I didn't really feel like putting it up on s3.

Having just put a screencast online, I wonder if there is room in the video world for a thin layer on top of Amazon S3 to display & embed video.

While creating an account might be a barrier, you could just charge slightly more than Amazon does for their storage.

Also, you could solve transcoding hell once, and sell it part and parcel as a EC2 module.

A thin layer on top of tools like this Flash Video Player would make it a complete package: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

I posted these thoughts here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66828

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