Format for Posting Videos on HAM Community Forums?

[Ezana4CE]

Is there a way to directly attach .AVI or .MP4 video clips to our posts on HAM forums?

 

[hameditor]

Is there a way to directly attach .AVI or .MP4 video clips to our posts on HAM forums?

Sorry, no. The only way to attach videos is to use an embed link from a video hosting service such as YouTube.

 

[Ezana4CE]

@hameditor Ok that's what I thought, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks for the swift reply.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Rumble.

Then you stand a chance that I'd even watch one

 

[pan60]

I am not even sure how to do videos ; o
LOL I have a youth account I set up to do videos more years ago then I can count but never did I sometimes think someday I will.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

I am not even sure how to do videos ; o
LOL I have a youth account I set up to do videos more years ago then I can count but never did I sometimes think someday I will.

Ya, I'd just prefer to make and edit myself to post .. VLC player does good and easy to use .

Been around a long time

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

 

[MountainSportAirguns]

Vimeo and Rumble are both alternatives if you want to embed them into this website. My experience with using those two platforms is #1 they don't show up in search functions and #2 the quality of the playback is terrible. I get people telling me all the time to move videos over to rumble...that would be great if they actually got any views. Who would sponsor content that gets no views? If you are a hobby based videographer they are good options to be able to share content.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Vimeo and Rumble are both alternatives if you want to embed them into this website. My experience with using those two platforms is #1 they don't show up in search functions and #2 the quality of the playback is terrible. I get people telling me all the time to move videos over to rumble...that would be great if they actually got any views. Who would sponsor content that gets no views? If you are a hobby based videographer they are good options to be able to share content.

Who wants to support woke tube and there cancel cultura propaganda..lol. I guess you .?

I'm not watching your stuff on it that's for sure ..lol

Poor vid quality

Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro - AIRGUN REVIEW

We dive in and take a detailed look at the Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro airgun! In this airgun review, we look at all the features of the HW95, the components of the Field Pro Combo, and compare this mode

rumble.com

Another in case the one above was not clear

JTS AIRACUDA, One of the Best PCP Air Rifles for the money? "Full Review" by Airgun Detectives

This is the "Brand New" JTS Airacuda PCP Air Rifle that just recently hit the market. Several months ago we did a review on the Airacuda Max. Now we get to show you, the less expensive brother. The pe

rumble.com

 

[pan60]

its a balance people have to make a living and although I despise formetioned woke tube and there cancel cultura propaganda I have to get info there.
and honestly there function I find easy to use and just better.
I do hope rumble gets there but it has a ways to go IMHO

 

[MountainSportAirguns]

Who wants to support woke tube and there cancel cultura propaganda..lol. I guess you .?

I'm not watching your stuff on it that's for sure ..lol

Poor vid quality

Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro - AIRGUN REVIEW

We dive in and take a detailed look at the Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro airgun! In this airgun review, we look at all the features of the HW95, the components of the Field Pro Combo, and compare this mode

rumble.com

Another in case the one above was not clear

JTS AIRACUDA, One of the Best PCP Air Rifles for the money? "Full Review" by Airgun Detectives

This is the "Brand New" JTS Airacuda PCP Air Rifle that just recently hit the market. Several months ago we did a review on the Airacuda Max. Now we get to show you, the less expensive brother. The pe

rumble.com

Who wants to support woke tube and there cancel cultura propaganda..lol. I guess you .?

I'm not watching your stuff on it that's for sure ..lol

Poor vid quality

Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro - AIRGUN REVIEW

We dive in and take a detailed look at the Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro airgun! In this airgun review, we look at all the features of the HW95, the components of the Field Pro Combo, and compare this mode

rumble.com

Another in case the one above was not clear

JTS AIRACUDA, One of the Best PCP Air Rifles for the money? "Full Review" by Airgun Detectives

This is the "Brand New" JTS Airacuda PCP Air Rifle that just recently hit the market. Several months ago we did a review on the Airacuda Max. Now we get to show you, the less expensive brother. The pe

rumble.com

Who wants to support woke tube and there cancel cultura propaganda..lol. I guess you .?

I'm not watching your stuff on it that's for sure ..lol

Poor vid quality

Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro - AIRGUN REVIEW

We dive in and take a detailed look at the Weihrauch HW95 Field Pro airgun! In this airgun review, we look at all the features of the HW95, the components of the Field Pro Combo, and compare this mode

rumble.com

Another in case the one above was not clear

JTS AIRACUDA, One of the Best PCP Air Rifles for the money? "Full Review" by Airgun Detectives

This is the "Brand New" JTS Airacuda PCP Air Rifle that just recently hit the market. Several months ago we did a review on the Airacuda Max. Now we get to show you, the less expensive brother. The pe

rumble.com

I'm glad you feel important enough that you think I need/want you to watch my stuff. What I wrote is pretty clear on the "topic", the playback quality sucks and few people use either to search. If they fix some of the problems I think Rumble could be good....but they haven't therefore they will never be competitive with a Google based platform, sorry to inform you of the hard truth.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Lol.. what a sell out ..

No your feeling important ..but who are you to me in the end .?

Here's the combating the crap ads cramped down your throat at utube

Add free viewing if interested

About Duck Player

Not just me bud ..

 

[AtlasAirguns]

Lol.. what a sell out ..

No your feeling important ..but who are you to me in the end .?

Here's the combating the crap ads cramped down your throat at utube

Add free viewing if interested

About Duck Player

Not just me bud ..

This is not the kind of attitude we should be having here at HAM.

 

[AtlasAirguns]

I'm glad you feel important enough that you think I need/want you to watch my stuff. What I wrote is pretty clear on the "topic", the playback quality sucks and few people use either to search. If they fix some of the problems I think Rumble could be good....but they haven't therefore they will never be competitive with a Google based platform, sorry to inform you of the hard truth.

Dana you are spot on. Unfortunately, YouTube's algorithm based on Google is the best in the business. Their algorithm is proprietary and therefore cannot be used by Rumble and so on. However, there are a few up-and-coming platforms coming online, and I believe this will open up more avenues of creativity in the future.

I for one am happy that you create, that you create often, that your content is free of charge as a consumer of videos, and that it is accessible on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere.

As for videos direct to HAM, the OP question if I am not mistaken, small videos I'm sure could be uploaded. But to give an example, the newest "EBR" video that I just did with a run time slightly over 26 minutes sits around 16 gigabytes in size, and as such having content creators directly upload to HAM would bog down the website with too much data. Additionally, if content creators like Dana, myself, and others exclusively uploaded to HAM and avoided Google's YouTube (yes I dislike their TOS as much as any guy), the fact remains that the videos would get a fraction of their views, and with that, I would not be incentivized to create and neither would Dana, I am sure. The fact is, I do video because I am a retailer or because I am hired to do so. That is my incentive. The last video took me 47 hours to edit, and without an incentive I frankly wouldn't be spending a week on an airgun video. If I did an airgun video at all, it may be a single clip upload of an animal I shot while pesting, but not a creative one that takes time, energy, and money to finalize. If content creators didn't publish to YouTube, companies would not send airguns to review because, wait for it, there would be no views to justify it. The same is true with HAM as well. If HAM as a magazine only sent a hardcopy of a review by mail to subscribers, it would not get the distribution that it does receive currently by being indexed by Google. Hence why all old media is dying.

My recommendation is watch if you want, don't if you don't, and if you find some grassroots guy in the middle of the desert uploading direct from his phone clips of his airguns to Rumble and that is your jam, then subscribe. As for me, I like art wherever I can get it, and Dana's videos are well crafted, meaningful representations of a career and hobby I love.

-Atlas

 

[hameditor]

Dana you are spot on. Unfortunately, YouTube's algorithm based on Google is the best in the business. Their algorithm is proprietary and therefore cannot be used by Rumble and so on. However, there are a few up-and-coming platforms coming online, and I believe this will open up more avenues of creativity in the future.

I for one am happy that you create, that you create often, that your content is free of charge as a consumer of videos, and that it is accessible on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere.

As for videos direct to HAM, the OP question if I am not mistaken, small videos I'm sure could be uploaded. But to give an example, the newest "EBR" video that I just did with a run time slightly over 26 minutes sits around 16 gigabytes in size, and as such having content creators directly upload to HAM would bog down the website with too much data. Additionally, if content creators like Dana, myself, and others exclusively uploaded to HAM and avoided Google's YouTube (yes I dislike their TOS as much as any guy), the fact remains that the videos would get a fraction of their views, and with that, I would not be incentivized to create and neither would Dana, I am sure. The fact is, I do video because I am a retailer or because I am hired to do so. That is my incentive. The last video took me 47 hours to edit, and without an incentive I frankly wouldn't be spending a week on an airgun video. If I did an airgun video at all, it may be a single clip upload of an animal I shot while pesting, but not a creative one that takes time, energy, and money to finalize. If content creators didn't publish to YouTube, companies would not send airguns to review because, wait for it, there would be no views to justify it. The same is true with HAM as well. If HAM as a magazine only sent a hardcopy of a review by mail to subscribers, it would not get the distribution that it does receive currently by being indexed by Google. Hence why all old media is dying.

My recommendation is watch if you want, don't if you don't, and if you find some grassroots guy in the middle of the desert uploading direct from his phone clips of his airguns on to Rumble and that is your jam, then subscribe. As for me, I like art wherever I can get it, and Dana's videos are well crafted, meaningful representations of a career and hobby I love.

-Atlas

Tristan, thank you for an excellent analysis! I agree with every word.