The way I understood it (keep in mind this was a couple of years ago when I was slightly up to speed on #hive apps, that the videos uploaded to the 3Speak interface were stored by members of the community instead of a big server like YouTube uses. Is that the problem? 
Who remembers Kimba the White Lion? Memories from my youth
3Speak thingy.I may be oversimplifying things. @theycallmedan is so smart I had trouble following the whole
I think they are loaded onto IPFS but you are right, it isnt being done through AWS or someone like that.
I have no clue what could be causing the problem other what is being fed to the API. Above my techie level.
that is well above my understanding... ipfs... aws... sorry! Well I tried uploading one just now to see what happens
They are the servers. AWS is Amazon's cloud.