May 15, 2009 So, will you be using VideoPress for your WPMU site?
It’s certainly an interesting proposition – managing, storing and converting video uploads is far from easy, and of course exceptionally difficult to monetize!
And of course, from a wp.com perspective, let’s face it – 5,290 video uploads in April isn’t exactly a great number (in comparison to their other stats) and WordPress.tv continues to struggle (despite recent green shoots)… so maybe this is the breakthrough Automattic needs in this area?
So, whaddya reckon… VideoPress hit or miss?
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Yet another YouTube, hard market to crack. Seems like they’ve built a solid product, but, it’s a paid add-on. I don’t think we’ll see any huge numbers in that area any time soon.
It sparks an interesting shift for Automattic. This is (as far as I’m aware) the first feature they’ve launched that’s purely available as a paid add-on. Their other features (space upgrades, domains, custom css) are all improvements over the basic feature. VideoPress is subscriber only. So no testing it before you buy it. No trying the first little piece and deciding you need more.
It’d be fascinating to see sales figures for WordPress.com paid upgrades. :-)
I can’t quite imagine why anyone would pay for such a thing when YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video and probably many others seem to offer the same service, gratis…
We would very much like to use VideoPress on our WordPressMU install. We are a rural school and bandwidth is very limited. We don’t get good results streaming video from outside our campus network, in fact it’s god-awful. We have a media server running a script to host video that we aren’t very happy with.
I just don’t know how to go about it, from what I can see it’s only available as an upgrade to blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If anyone can help or advise me I would be grateful.
@Miranda, the code that runs video press is available here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/
It’s an open source plugin published by Automattic. Might be what you’re looking for. :-)
Bless you Callum!