From my point of view the only visually different video is the one with the myspace player. The reason for this is probably the enabled smoothing in the player… or maybe a sorenson h.263 codec that adds a bit of bleaching in some cases. IMO this is the best result.

Also the GoFish player is missing for me(a black box is shown instead).

I have been uploading clips on Vimeo.
I like the interface/look of Vimeo, but when someone embedded it onto their MySpace page the playback on their MySpace was choppy, like 5-7 frames per second.

Is there a way to optimize or is it just inherent with the video host ?

I find downsizing videos at upload time sometimes creates more distortion than upsizing at play time. This could be because larger videos have usually better initial quality than phone capture, therefore larger expectations for quality.

Thanks for compare & cheers,
P.

Google Video should have just outdone YouTube instead of bought it. Their service is by far superior in a hardware aspect. Or perhaps now that they have merged they need to better optimize YouTube to at least meet Google Video. That seems like it should have been high on the priority list after it’s purchase. I would use YouTube for my personal videos and website embedding more had it added these small enhancements.

Anyways, the Google one sounded best to me, aside from the original. The revver one sounded worst. And I think the YouTube one looked worst maybe?