ZippyVideos allows you to host any video under 10MB without registration - just upload your file and you're done! Register for a free account and you can upload videos up to 20mb. Use ZV to share videos with family and friends. The service is also useful for linking great and funny videos on message boards, posting videos on personal websites, and on blogs. The greatest part, we're 100% FREE!

If you are a registered user and want to put a video into your video collection you must first login to your account. Click 'upload video' at the top menu. Click 'browse' to select the video file you want to upload from your harddrive. Write a short title for it. If the video you upload contain a good deal of violence (like real world violence) or nudity, you MUST specify that by checking the Adult Content field. If you don't, your video may get deleted shortly. You can optionally choose to enter a description for the video and choose an appropriate category and tags for the video. Hit upload and check the progress bar underneath the upload pane to see when the upload finishes. When it's done, your video is live and ready to be viewed!

If you have either IE 5+, Firefox, Safari, Opera or any other new broser with Cookies & _Javascript enabled, you should be set. For playing videos, Windows Media Player 10 is strongly recommended. For details about playing videos see the "Playing Videos" section below.

By uploading anonymously, you have little control over your video - for example, you won't be able to delete it later or make sure that your video is only viewable by those you'd like. The video limit is only 10MB for anonymous uploads too. On the flip side, it's a quick and easy way to get your video on the web with ease.

Conversely, a free account comes with many additional features:

Upload limit is 20MB for free accounts and 10MB for anonymous uploads.
Supported Video Formats: .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .wmv, .asf, .mov, .rm, .ram, .divx and also .swf (Shockwave Flash).

Make sure you are uploading to your free account as that one provides increased 20MB limit.
If your video is over 10MB, make sure you are uploading to a free account as it provides an increased 20MB limit. If your file is still bigger than 20MB we suggest using Microsoft Media Encoder, which is a free application for converting / compressing most any video. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx.

Registered users can delete / modify videos easily when they login under their 'My Videos' tab. Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete anonymously uploaded video at this time. You may however contact us if you really must delete an anonymous video.

Videos in registered user accounts will never get deleted however anonymous videos may get deleted after 3 months of inactivity.

Unfortunately this isn't possible at the moment.

Hotlinking is NOT allowed and will not work for files uploaded to ZippyVideos. Please use one of the many other linking options to link to the video page. Thank you.

You've tried to use an unacceptable linking method. Please see the question above for more details.

The best way to get to your old video is to try and browse for it using the browse feature. You may in some cases be able to recover your video if you shared the URL on another site. This is why we suggest that users register for a free account, where you'll have absolute control over your videos at all times.

For most of the streaming videos (You can select streaming option under video) on our site, it would be best to install Windows Media Player 10 from following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx.

For shockwave (.swf) files, you'll need the shockwave plug-in:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/

Playing original (non streamed) files:
This is not recommended as we are able to stream 99% of videos, however, if you do decide to view a video in the original format, you may need a variety of codecs. If you have trouble playing these videos, always start by upgrading Windows Media Player.

For playing .rm (RealVideo) files you must have RealPlayer (Download RealPlayer )
For playing .mov (QuickTime) files you must have QuickTime plugin (Download Quicktime )

Easily! Please visit our Support Centre and we'll be glad to assist you.