I have used Putfile to place videos on my website. Putfile had pretty good quality, was easy to upload to, and easy to imbed on my pages. A visitor could click on a vidoe pane and it would play.

Now, a visitor is sent to Putfile, similar to You Tube. Are there other hosting services that have the atributes Putfile had in the past?

-- Brian Wood

The exopense of bandwidth cause them all to downgrade videos a la Youtube method.. Depending on your needs and abilities, you may wish to look into having your own website & domaine. That's what I do, well worth the while.

I've been using Vimeo (www.vimeo.com) lately as - they support HD as well as standard resolution. They do re-encode your video, but the quality is worlds ahead of YouTube, and some of the HD clips I've watched look pretty spectacular... But, I only have standard Mini-DV cameras so HD isn't something that I've done anything with personally.

I'm also experimenting with hosting my own videos and have had pretty good luck with that using a Content Management System called Joomla 1.5 (http://www.joomla.org) together with an add-on for it called AllVideos Reloaded (http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de) which seems to work very well for my purposes.

I hope this helps...

Al