Thanks for your help with this. I was using YT first, then I tried LBRY.
LBRY would accept the MOV file, but would not play it. That's a painful bug.
Dailymotion is pretty nice. I still had people tell me it won't let them in; I never surveyed countries. Eastern europe I think.
I just tried Bitchute today; it has hard to use UI, but I got it up and working.
I updated one of my posts to include the Bitchute url. I'd like to understand better which hosts work for what regions; I could include 2 links for any video I post, if I thought it would help.
None of these other sites seem to be integrated like YT, for using the video link as the thumbnail, etc.
I'm guessing that's a special integration package steemit is using for YT videos, maybe from YT.
Yeah, YT is linked with steemit interface. Apart from this, YT is world's second largest search engine after Google. Millions of people use it on daily basis. So, its normal for steemit to integrate Yt with their user interface. I jst checked Bitchute today, it was very hard to use as you said plus very confusing. I had to add some videos on my blog but they all were under YT copyrights issue, so I had to use daily motion for now. It works fine :) I'll continue to use it for now.