Here at Vive.ly, you own your own video sharing site. Your own URL, and your own video folders, to organize and show the way you want. Vive.ly is the easiest way to add a video section to your web site. Just link from your web site here. Put a logo here, and point the logo and the Home link back to your main site. To add a video, just drop it in the Vive.ly folder on your computer and it shows up here, automatically encoded into the best video quality for the web.

Vive.ly is the anti-YouTube. Sometimes you don't want to toss your video into a crowded room in the middle of a lot of noise. Social video sites like YouTube, Daily Motion, or Vimeo, are perfect for "mixing it up". But there are downsides to the mixer. If your video is about ice skating, people who came to look at your video are shown hundreds of other ice skating clips, taking them away from your clips off into the rest of the social video site. If your video is about a product, visitors will be offered more videos about competitor products, or worse, competitors may advertise on your own clip. If your video is about politics or religion, people will have lots to comment, and most of it may not be things you want your community to read.

Realtors, small business owners, family members, wedding videographers, even large corporations, tell us Vive.ly is a much better choice for the way they want to share video with customers, fans, friends, or family. At Vive.ly, you decide what people see.

To watch your Vive.ly videos on your TV, the easiest way is to make sure you're using a modern DVR or set top box that can subscribe to a "video feed" link. Sometimes these are called "video podcast" or "vodcast" or "RSS" feeds. TiVo can do it, so can most popular media center software like XBMC or Boxee. Just add the feed for the Vive.ly video folder you want to have show up on your DVR, and watch new videos when they're posted.

You can watch your Vive.ly videos on your iPhone or iPod Touch just by visiting the site and browsing to the video.

Yes, absolutely. In fact, we recommend it.

We think Vive.ly is the perfect video hosting site for companies with commercial videos that don't want their videos to be mixed in with the babble of a social or user generated content video site.

First, check out the rest of the help sections here to see if there's an explanation. We want posting video on Vive.ly to be so easy you don't have to think about it, but we've got some good examples posted of how to set up your Vive.ly drive, backup your videos to it, and see those videos on your site.

But sometimes we're guilty of thinking like programmers, so maybe we missed explaining a step, or maybe something's just plain broken. In that case, email us at help (at) vive.ly to open a support ticket, and one of our streaming video gurus will help you out.

Have a suggestion for us that isn't a bug? Use the Feedback button at the left to let us know.

We respect copyright law, and want anyone hosting video here to respect it too. We're not responsible for what customers post, and sometimes it happens a customer uploads something copyrighted by accident or maybe even on purpose. Our Terms of Use says customers aren't allowed to do that, and it's our policy to follow copyright procedures to take down any copyrighted content. Please follow the procedure there exactly to file a copyright notice with us.

We also have the right to cancel the account of anyone who may infringe the copyrights or intellectual property rights of others. If we cancel your account, you'll lose anything you've posted, so don't post video that isn't yours.

We love YouTube. (Although, to be honest, we love Flickr and Vimeo more!) But social media sites aren't right for everyone.

Any group of people that wants to share video and keep some control over how it looks and what's shown along with it will find they can do that more easily here at Vive.ly than at a site set up for commenting on and promoting other people's videos.

Families, schools, small businesses, churches, all find they'd rather just drag and drop their videos into a folder on their computer and have Vive.ly automatically build a clean and beautiful video site for them.

You see that green "Sign Up" link at the top of this page? That links to a one page sign up form where you can choose your custom Vive.ly domain name and choose a video hosting plan based on how much video you figure you'll serve in a month.

Our video hosting plans work just like a cell phone plan (with one really important difference!).

What's the same is that you decide how much you want to use, and the more you plan to use, the cheaper it gets.

What's different is there's no two year commitment or even annual subscription needed. All our plans are month to month. You can cancel your plan or upgrade your plan at any time without any change fees.

You may use a console command to do that mapping. Press “Start” button and choose “Run…”. Type in “cmd” and press “Enter” – that will open a command prompt. In command line, type

net use * http://mydrive.vive.ly/your_subdomain_at_vively/

Make sure you have “WebClient” system service running and have Network Discovery ON at Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center before executing command above.

Please open "Keychain Access" in Applications, and find "login" keychain and a category "Passwords". Then in the list of stored keychains, find mydrive.vive.ly for account (A) and delete it. Finally, you can map Vive.ly mydrive.