Divshare Does Videos Beyond Comparison

If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you would probably know that I am a big fan of Divshare. It was merely a file sharing service when it was launched in December last year, but they quickly grew to offer features which no other file host offers.

The latest feature into their arsenal is videos, every video you upload on Divshare will conveniently be translated into flash video that can be viewed on download page or embedded to your own blog. Divshare encodes the video at a higher quality of 560 pixels, whereas most video sharing sites like YouTube compresses the video into 320 x 240 pixels. Check out the example video here

They currently support videos in MOV, AVI, WMV, MPG and ASF format. Real Video and 3GP will be added shortly. The upload size of the videos is 200MB, far better any video sharing site. Ryan has posted a list comparing the upload limit of various video sharing sites:

• Dailymotion: 150MB or 20 minutes
• DivShare: 200MB
• Google Video: Unlimited if using desktop uploader, otherwise 100MB
• Metacafe: 100MB
• Revver: 100MB
• YouTube: 100MB or 10 minutes

If your videos are already on Divshare servers, no need to fret because they’ll create a flash version of your videos, but you’ll have to login into your dashboard and click “Convert My Video Now” link. Divshare continues to be a file hosting service and you can download the uploaded video as it is. For instance, if you download a video from YouTube, it will be in the FLV format, but Divshare will preserve the video format in which it was uploaded. People love Divshare because they don’t force you to register inorder to upload videos or files.

That’s not all, still a bunch of new features including embeddable flash gallery coming up next week. I’m really excited!