{"id":263,"date":"2008-05-04T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-05-04T21:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T21:53:42","slug":"flickr-video-vs-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Flickr video vs YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my birthday today, and one of my presents was a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/gift\/\">Flickr subscription<\/a>. How cool is that?! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots that I want to play with, but my first experiment with Flickr was to upload the same AVI video file that I uploaded to YouTube last week. I was curious to see the difference in picture quality between the two. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve embedded them both below so you can see for yourself. This isn&#8217;t meant to be a representative or scientific test, but as first impressions go, I much prefer Flickr video. The interface feels cleaner, and the video quality is better.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DU1JAEFNuqM&#038;hl=en&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DU1JAEFNuqM&#038;hl=en&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flickr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=49235\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=7a1378ab60&amp;photo_id=2465821136\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=49235\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=49235\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=7a1378ab60&amp;photo_id=2465821136\" height=\"319\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Flickr has more restrictions &#8211; they limit users to much shorter length videos, smaller video filesizes, and only paid users may upload. Is it just that they can afford the higher video quality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my birthday today, and one of my presents was a Flickr subscription. How cool is that?! \ud83d\ude42 There&#8217;s lots that I want to play with, but my first experiment with Flickr was to upload the same AVI video file that I uploaded to YouTube last week. I was curious to see the difference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[190,66,67],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-flickr","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}