Divshare

It’s time for another big upgrade — today we’re proud to launch DivShare Video. Every video you upload to the site will now be converted to a quick, convenient Flash video that you can watch directly from the download page or embed on your own blog, web site or profile. We’ve loaded DivShare Video with a lot of cool features — here’s a quick list:

Download your original video
We’re a file host at heart, so you will always have access to your original video file in addition to your new Flash video.

Huge, high quality vids
We encode your videos at high quality and display them at a width of 560 pixels, making them bigger and badder than most other videos on the web.

The easiest uploads around
There’s no extra work involved in creating your Flash videos — just upload the file to DivShare, and we’ll recognize it as a video that fits our specs. The system will automatically start the conversion, and you’ll get an e-mail (as well as see it on the download page) when it’s done!

Anonymous uploads, 200 MB file size, and all the DivShare standards
Your videos will enjoy the same freedoms as all your other DivShare files — there’s no video time limit, and you can upload any source video up to 200 MB in size. And, of course, you can upload and create a Flash video without even registering for an account.

We’ll go into more detail about converting your current vids and fill you in on a few things we’re still working on during this weekend’s Beta test. But first, get started by checking out this sample vid:

Not bad, right? We know that a lot of you already have videos online — in fact, a large portion of our most popular files are already videos. To create a Flash version of a video that’s already on DivShare, just log in to your account and visit your video’s download page. From there, you’ll see a dialog with a link that says “Convert My Video Now” — click that, and you’re on your way! Conversion will take a few minutes, and you’ll get an e-mail when it’s all ready to go.

And, as we mentioned, we’re releasing the video service in Beta for the weekend — which means that we know it’s not 100% done, but we want you to start playing with it and give us your feedback while we finish things up. If you have ideas, suggestions or errors to report, hit us up in the comments below. In the meantime, here’s a list of stuff we’re working on now:

The Flash