I agree that the main challenge for us is to get substantial time commitments from the users to create a quality video and post. Most people are not that vocal, but some are - specifically politicians and celebrities.
Twitter started with 140 characters and eventually had to remove the restriction - so not sure if limiting the video length would be helpful. Alternatively, I think 20 sec preview/trailer of the video would be useful in filtering out uninteresting videos.
I see some merit in doing video only based debates & discussions - reduces the chances of abuse & troll via anonymous and coward text comments. More often, useful comments are lost in sea of useless and irrelevant comments.
Video is encoded in HLS and we use Bitdash player that falls back to native players on Android & IOS etc. http://developer.dash-player.com/supported-formats-devices
I agree that the main challenge for us is to get substantial time commitments from the users to create a quality video and post. Most people are not that vocal, but some are - specifically politicians and celebrities.
Twitter started with 140 characters and eventually had to remove the restriction - so not sure if limiting the video length would be helpful. Alternatively, I think 20 sec preview/trailer of the video would be useful in filtering out uninteresting videos.
I see some merit in doing video only based debates & discussions - reduces the chances of abuse & troll via anonymous and coward text comments. More often, useful comments are lost in sea of useless and irrelevant comments.