[wp-edu] Video

[Joseph Ugoretz]

We have students (and faculty) using video a lot, and we try to direct them to use YouTube or Vimeo as much as possible.  But in some cases, for various reasons, uploading directly to WordPress is the best solution (for classes where access to the videos needs to be limited, or where many students need to upload and have the video available rapidly, without waiting for processing time, or where the videos are too long or too large for the external services).  In those cases, we just up the filesize and storage limits as much as necessary.  These increases have to be requested, but I have always granted every request, and expect to continue to do so.  

I'm very interested in Jim's VideoPress progress, and will be following that closely!  (also wondering about MediaCore.  Anyone going in that direction?)
-- 
Joseph Ugoretz, PhD
Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning and Technology
Macaulay Honors College - CUNY
35 West 67th St.
New York, NY 10023
212.729.2920
http://macaulay.cuny.edu






On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Hoyer, Teri wrote:

> Laura --
> I agree with Patrick about using a streaming server/service to deliver the video. There are a lot of free options (Vimeo doesn't have the size limit that YouTube does).  
> 
> On Wordpress, we use a plugin called "Viper's Video Quicktags" to enable easy embedding of videos delivered through all the standard services. I don't have to do much to support the bloggers using videos, so it must be working okay.
> 
> 
> Teri Hoyer
> Webmaster
> Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
> University of Colorado
> 303.492.5704
> http://cires.colorado.edu
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Laura Fathauer
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:18 PM
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> Subject: [wp-edu] Video
> 
> I'm curious about how people have enabled/use video; do you allow your users to upload video into wordpress? Do you have file size restrictions? Or are you just directing that content to youtube and embedding? We're typically getting requests to be able to add video in the 50-100 meg range.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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