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title: "Video Hosting Services: How TechSmith could lose a potential customer"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/7/15/video-hosting-services-how-techsmith-could-lose-a-potential.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/7/15/video-hosting-services-how-techsmith-could-lose-a-potential.html"
published: "2007-07-15T23:29:26"
updated: "2007-07-15T23:29:26"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm setting up a client with some blogging abilities and screencast abilities, and I've hit a an unexpected snag: I can't find a good video hosting service. By video hosting service I mean I need: Ability to save high…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Video Hosting Services: How TechSmith could lose a potential customer

By Roy Osherove July 15, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published July 15, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

I'm setting up a client with some blogging abilities and screencast abilities, and I've hit a an unexpected snag: I can't find a good video hosting service. By video hosting service I mean I need:

- Ability to save high quality video that can be watched in full screen (wmv is ideal)
- Will not be compressed on the server
- Will provide me with the ability to embed the video in HTML
- The embedded video will "just work" on both IE and FireFox.
- The embedded video will "just work" on the most popular blogging engines (Community Server, WordPress etc..)

The only thing that comes close is [TechSmith's Screencast.com](http://www.screencast.com/) , which does all the points I mentioned except the last one:  I can't successfully embed their videos in WordPress and watch them on IE Or FireFox.  To top this off, the customer service and sales department isn't being bery attentive: a couple of emails since last week have not yet been answered, which worries me a lot..

Even more worrying: Screencast.com is the only place I could find which meets even half of my needs.

Does anyone know something that has the same features? Is anyone from TechSmith reading this? I love SnagIt and Camtasia, but what the hell is up with Screencast.com?


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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