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Guide to Hosting your own Video Site

Hands on: Using Miro Community

Miro Community is a great tool which aggregates (brings together) different videos from different sources. It doesn't take long to set up and produces a great looking site quickly. Have a look at these examples of Miro Community websites.

  • http://pittsburghonvideo.org
  • http://whyopenedmatters.org
  • http://www.swanseatelly.org
Swansea Telly uses a default look while the other sites have been customised.

As a Service or Self-hosted Miro Community

Miro community is available as service with various pricing plans including a free version.There are various advantages to either option.

As a service: The main advantage to choosing to run Miro Community as a service is that all the technical needs are taken care of. You simply need to sign up for an account choose either the free service or one of the paying options and start using it. 

Self-hosted: When self-hosting you don't run into the limits of numbers of videos that are part of the service pricing structure. You may also extend the features and change the layout.

Miro Community Features

Here are some of the features that make Miro Community such an appealing option for a video aggregator site along with simple screenshot to guide you in how to use it. 

Add Individual videos: Add individual videos to the site in the following ways
  • Add the URL of a video sharing site that supports OEmbed (most do including YouTube, Vimeo,etc)
  • Add the direct link to a supported video file - mp4, webm etc
  • Add the details a video which has an embed code
 
Add RSS feeds and YouTube channels: If the source of videos that you are trying to add has an RSS feed or if they have a YouTube channel then these sources can be added to the Miro Community back end. To do this add the URL of the feed or channel into the Manage Sources tab for your Miro Community dashboard. Click on Add Feed.
 



Display video infomration attractively: Miro Community takes advantage feeds and OEmbed including screenshots of the videos as well as details about them, to create an attractive layout of imported videos.
 

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