How Automated Is A Video Upload And Conversion Process That Takes Hours Or Days?
Video content uploaded to vidlisting is available immediately after a few minutes of processing. Unlike our competitors, we dont let our approval process get in the way of you and your video. With sites like Youtube apparently on a path to ban online property tours (EDITOR NOTE: info pointed out to be not be representative of YouTube terms of use), a scalable and responsive service for real estate video content will be more important for those that produce such content.
How is how we scale our conversion process with respect to reviews of uploaded user generated content:
- Non-video files are immediately detected: We have a 100% automated video conversion process with a step that catches files that are not valid videos before any conversion begins. We also have the ability to know when uploaded videos have codecs that we cannot convert or must download in order to convert.
- Your converted video upload is only available by link or widget: Converted video is initially only available to you by direct link, personal media catalog, or distributable by widget. This will serve most people’s needs in the first hours of an upload. The real danger of a malicious upload is with automated distribution or syndication. This is likely why portals haven’t just taken feeds en masse from user generated listing sites.
With our system, the video is available immediately but not syndicated until after review. Until review occurs, the only distribution mechanism is by the user cutting and pasting the video widget or link. Syndication to our website or to partner sites cannot occur and therefore any damage done by a maliciously posted will be limited to sites where the user must have direct access.
We don’t believe that you should have to wait hours or days for your videos to convert. Honestly, I wonder how automated the conversion system really is when the wait is that long or how a site can scale with a growing user base if every video must be manually reviewed.
We think that we have a better and more scalable approach that has reasonable safeguards against maliciously posted user generated content. Do you? How can we improve?
Tags: conversion, uploads, videos, widgets