General information

Basic general information about the hosts: creator/company, license/price etc.

Supported input file formats

All services support the following input file formats:

• Moving Picture Experts Group (.MPG/MPEG-1)
• QuickTime File Format (.MOV)
• Windows Media Video (.WMV)
• Audio Video Interleave (.AVI)
• H.264 MPEG-4/AVC (.MP4)

Unless otherwise indicated, they also support the following input file formats:

• Matroska Multimedia Container (.MKV)
• Theora (.OGV)
• 3rd Generation Partnership Project (.3GP)

Streaming video technical information

Site traffic

Specifically dedicated video hosting websites

See also

• Comparison of streaming media software
• Content delivery network
• Streaming television
• Internet Protocol television
• Comparison of music streaming services
• List of streaming media systems
• List of online video platforms
• Multicast
• One-click hosting
• P2PTV
• Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations Treaty
• Push technology
• Streaming media
• Video on demand
• Webcast

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39. English, Spanish, French, German ↩

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44. Chinese, English with www.youku.tv Global edition ↩

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46. Users may choose to enable or disable ads. Automatically enabled when video is identified as third-party content. ↩

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55. DivX, H.263, H.264, FLV, Xvid, NUT, M4V, ASX, 3G2 ↩

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62. H.263, H.264, FLV ↩

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71. unlimited for premium members; 600 kbit/s for free members ↩

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77. since June 2019, AV1: Setting a new standard for video codecs https://vimeo.com/blog/post/av1-new-standard-codecs/ ↩

78. The Vimeo API has a limit of 250 GB and 24 hours per video file. This is applicable to all new plans, and to legacy Pro Unlimited, Business and Premium plans. Other legacy plans have different file size limits: 500 MB for Basic, 5 GB for Plus, and 20 GB for Pro. https://developer.vimeo.com/api/upload/videos ↩

79. 200 MB when using the web-based uploader ↩

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