VideoHat
Your videos, on your own domain.
VideoHat is a video host you run yourself. You upload a clip, give it a title, a description and a poster frame, and publish it — VideoHat stores it on your own disk and streams it from your own domain, so your audience watches without a third party in the middle.
Playback is real streaming, not a download: the player asks for the part of the file it needs and VideoHat serves exactly those bytes, so a long clip starts fast and seeking works. There are no adverts, no recommendation feed you did not write, and no upload limit set by someone else — the only limit is your own disk.
Step by step
How to publish a video, from upload to feed
Every step is the real one in your own install. Nothing is uploaded to us or to anyone else.
- STEP 01
Open VideoHat and upload a clip
From your workspace, open VideoHat and choose a video file from your computer. It uploads straight to your own storage with a progress line.
- STEP 02
Give it a title and a description
Write the title and the description people will read, and pick a poster frame. Both are yours; nothing is generated for you.
- STEP 03
Check the playback
Play the video in the browser to confirm it streams, and that the poster and title look right.
- STEP 04
Publish it to your feed
Publish the video as a post on your own domain. It appears on your feed, where anyone can watch it, and it can be sent to the networks you have connected.
- STEP 05
Manage it later
Rename it, replace its details or delete it from the same screen. Deleting frees the disk space it was using.
What it does
Everything a movie needs, without a camera
Upload from the browser
Pick a file and it uploads straight to your own storage, with a progress line. No desktop app, no encoder to install and no queue you cannot see.
Real streaming playback
VideoHat serves byte ranges, so the player fetches the part it needs. A long video starts quickly and you can scrub to any point without downloading the whole file first.
A title, a description and a poster
Every video carries its own text and its own poster frame, so it looks finished wherever it is linked rather than a bare file name.
Rename, replace and delete
You can rename a video, replace its details, or delete it — and a delete frees the bytes on disk, because a video you removed should not still be occupying your storage.
Publish to your own feed
A finished video goes out as a post on your own domain, in the same content model as everything else, so it can reach your feed and, when you connect them, the networks you already use.
No ads, no third party
Nothing is inserted before, during or after your video, and no external service sits between your audience and your file.
Questions
Questions people ask
Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.
What is VideoHat?
Do I need a fast connection to host video?
Is there an upload size limit?
Can I remove a video and get the space back?
Where do my videos live?
VideoHat is ready on your install
It is part of Social Jinni and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.