Flickr Video

Earlier today, I read that Flickr is now beginning to offer video hosting to its "pro" members. That's almost perfect timing, as I had only just started to make more videos with my digital camera, and was not sure about uploading them along with the other stuff I've got on my YouTube account.

The current limit is for 90-second videos, not larger than 150 megabytes in file size. For the moment, that length is sufficient for me, as none of the recent videos I took exceed that length. The saxophone solo from my uncle, on the other hand...

The upside is that, as you can see, the resolution of the embedded videos seem to be higher with Flickr video than YouTube (although you can also get higher quality playbacks from YouTube if watch it directly from the site). Hopefully they'll be able to offer the full resolutions of the uploaded videos in the future, like they do now with pictures.

I also read that it takes AVI, MOV, and MPEG files. Wasn't sure if that included MP4s that I've converted to work with my PSP--which, coincidentally, I've just made a 720x480 conversion of last night. Perfect for me to test with, and it worked, so that's good to know.