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Anyone wanting to try hosting their own HD or SD video portfolio in WebM can try http://www.vive.ly/ which is like parts of Dropbox, Zencoder, and Hulu in a blender, for original video files you want backed up, encoded, and published publicly or privately -- without the YouTube problems of giving up your copyrights or having competitor videos promoted alongside yours.

Drop your originals in a folder, we encode into SD and HD in H.264, Ogg, and WebM, and build you a mini-Hulu video site that works in Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5 across browsers. You can also download the encoded files for use elsewhere, embed them, or rebrand the video site with your own logo and domain name.

Use our Hacker News invite code hd4yc to sign up free, and let us know what you think of the WebM encodes. We encode all the files in parallel, and the video pages update as the versions become available, so you may have to wait a bit for the WebM encodes to finish.

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Currently, it looks as if the gallery pages are using flash -- what about using native html for browsers that can play WebM video natively?

If the Vively subscriber sets his settings to HTML 5 or "video for everyone" it will use that by default.

If you visit from iPad, you'll see video in HTML 5 regardless of the user's Flash setting.

Btw, if you post a vertical video shot on iPhone, that works too, it will be shown vertical.

We try to use the playback tech most likely to feel familiar and give good performance for the end user (viewer). A Vively subscriber can set to HTML 5, though, then preference is Ogg for Firefox, WebM for Chrome, H.264 for Safari.

Love it, I want to share your site as a quick tip on our show http://rowshow.com. On Thursday. Can you hook me up with a promo code to give out to viewers? Email in my profile.

That'd be great. Will do. Anyone else would like a custom promo code for your customers, organization, or community, just ask.

EDIT: Created and sent.

Do you have an email address? No contact info on your site.

The help for logged in users is TenderApp, and the signup welcome email provides several contact emails. You can reach me with my username on gmail. Will add contact info to about page, thanks for pointing out the oversight.

I assume you're either the founder or work for Vively--do you have a contact email or phone number? I have a few questions about this this service and how it might be useful for my company's customers.

As founder, I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially on making it more useful. My email's my username on gmail. I'm open tomorrow to call, just let me know contact info and time/timezone (I'm US/Eastern).

Same for anyone else who's interested!

Awesome. Any way to upload one vid here and then have it automatically sync with YouTube, Vimeo, etc. accounts?

We prototyped that, and by pushing out the HD H264 file we encode to those services, it works, but we wanted to keep this as simple as possible at start. We're thinking about an "advanced settings" control panel to enable those kinds of features: "[x] I'm a pro, let me do more.".

Ideas welcome!

I found your pricing page confusing. What does this mean:

> I can show my visitors up to 12,000 minutes of streaming video > I can upload & process up to 600 minutes of new video

Second what do you mean by "you pay only once"?

It's pay as you go, not monthly recurring.

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