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RE: How To Make A Living Playing Video Games: Esports, Streaming, And Blogging
My story is exactly yours when it comes to Dtube. It's such a great idea on paper, but it has so many issues that I too plan to just stick to YouTube until it improves.
I also agree that videos are more fun than streams. Streams are nice for killing time, but I find myself more invested in gaming videos because, like you said, there's more creativity and greater focus of content.
I wouldn't stop posting on Youtube but you might want to check out Dlive. I discovered yesterday that you can upload video to it - I thought it was only livestreams. I don't know how wrought Dlive is with uploading issues, but the videos play a lot better for me than Dtube ones so that's a good sign at least I guess. I might give it a try next time I upload and see if it works.
It's true, but only videos that are under 2 gb in size (that's close to 25 minutes at 720p), and that only works for some of my videos. The upload time is about the same as YouTube, but I'm a bit dubious to put a lot of eggs in the Dlive basket. It sounds good on paper, so I will keep trying, but I hope that they make the platform more friendly to video uploads and not just livestreams.
It's under 2gb is it? I found an older thing talking about it and it said 1gb so I'm glad it has been upped at least as 1gb isn't much. I found out the hard way with my most recent video that Dailymotion doesn't allow over 2 gb either. I'll just handbrake any videos that are larger than 2gb for the websites. Handbrake works great for compressing videos and making them smaller without a very noticeable difference in quality (depending on how much you compress it of course). And certainly I wouldn't put all your eggs in Dlive. I'm not recommending stopping posting on YouTube. I'm talking about putting your videos in both places. I'm thinking about trying it on top of YT and Dailymotion myself. People here like the platforms unique to steemit so I think if it can work it pays off to do both but if it is as much trouble as dtube was for me its not really. Yeah I upload overnight as Australian internet isn't the best so the upload time is only an issue if it is so bad it is still uploading in the morning.
Just thought I'd let you know, I've now done a bit of uploading to dlive and so far it is working beautifully (touch wood). If you needed to get versions of some videos that were over 2GB to be under to be able to be on there, Handbrake is a good way to make them smaller without too much noticeable change in quality which is what I did with one of mine that was too big. Good luck with whatever you choose but just thought you might want to know that from one person's experience at least it appears to work quite nicely and not have the issues dtube has.
I actually tried to upload a couple videos recently and give it another shot, but both videos uploaded to about 90% completion and then just froze. I waited for almost 8 hours, but it was entirely stuck. The moment I did anything with the page, it lost all the data and I'd have to start all over again.
I'll keep trying, but I swear I keep having the worst luck with Dlive, lol
Oh that sucks. Sorry to hear that. I've only had issues like that on dtube so far so I thought maybe dlive was free of those issues (mostly - ofc it won't be free of those issues completely, even YouTube sometimes has issues like that, just rarely).