After evaluating the two leading viable Stage6 competitors, Veoh and Vimeo, I have decided to post the high-quality versions of our videos at Vimeo, despite Stage6’s endorsement of Veoh.

Both Vimeo and Veoh re-encode uploads (something that degrades the quality significantly). Veoh has slightly better picture quality, but reduces the framerate to a stuttering, jerky mess. Vimeo has slightly worse picture quality, but maintains a smooth framerate.

Veoh for some reason collapses the audio into mono, but Vimeo preserves stereo sound.

Vimeo, however, is the clear winner because they provide a link to download the original AVI file that I upload. While Stage6 was still better in the sense that they streamed the original AVI file to the viewer, Vimeo is an acceptable alternative.

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