I need an Image/Video hosting recommendation
I'm looking for a new site to store my videos and photos. I'm currently using Flickr, which I like tremendously. But I also want to host video files. For that in the past I was using PhanFare.com, which I also like. They'll host and show both video and image, BUT (and this is huge .. HUGE) after two years they refuse to add tagging support, stating that other feature rank higher from their customers. With tagging PhanFare.com would be nearly perfect. Without tagging, I simply have too much content to manager in their current folder structure.
So the site I'm looking for will ...
- offer unlimited uploads.
- not be free.
- offer private label hosting with dns -> images.ScottCate.com
- image and video tagging.
- store the full size original media.
- make multiple size/versions of the images available
- offer offline DVD backups
- have an API of some sort, mostly for fetching
- hopefully this is already in use by others, and 3rd party software is available for purchase.
- I don't care if the video is re-encoded, just make the original available for download
- video can have a 1gig, or 10 minute max length
- additional meta data for video's would be nice, so they can be sorted in with images. It's ok if I have to supply this.
- have a nice player, hopefully fully Ajax enabled, so page refreshes aren't bothersome.
- ability to embed images and videos with supplied code snippets.
- comment support (even if I have to moderate them)
- and finally - a nice installable upload utility.
What I'm trying to avoid is simple. I don't want to point family and friends to multiple places. Go here for images, go there for video.
What I haven't seen done yet, that I'm really looking for is having the video's interact with the images. If on my camera I have 10 images, and 3 video's intermingled, it would be nice to upload them, get 13 thumbnails and some indication that 3 are video's. All the tagging should work the same for video's and images.
Do you have any recommendations?