Somewhat decentralized video websites

I had an idea for a youtube alternative.
What if we create a standard, where people host a video on their own website. As long as the page's code meet's the standard, It can be submitted to video search sites that search and categorize said videos. This way, each video maker has to supply their own bandwidth.

That's the problem with alternatives. Supplying a video for potentially millions of people is expensive, nobody wants to pay for that and there's basically no way to profit from it without some advanced kikery that will make it not "youtube replacement".

Your idea for a decentralised video site isn't very decentralised. If each author's videos are hosted only by the author himself, then it's a simple matter to knock out his content. Your average pleb content creator can't afford fat pipes like Jewgle.

We would need a smaller file size format/compression.. Having to handle all the bandwidth in an environment where there is higher traffic would be costly.. Unless you have unlimited/enough bandwidth with your host provider.

How about a site where anyone can submit a video, you can choose which videos to watch and which ones to help host?

Mediagoblin.

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while I'm all for decentralized sharing of media, it's got a long way to go still.

You're confusing decentralization and DDoS/censorship resistance. OP's scheme is the former, but not the latter.

It's still not a good idea, though. Probably 90%+ of people can figure out how to upload a video to Youtube. Probably 10% can figure out how to get a website and upload their video to it, and create a wrapper to OP's specification. And the first time someone with a hosting plan/VPS that has a data cap and added charges for overages has a video go unexpectedly viral and gets slapped with a $1000 charge from their VPS provider, nobody will ever use it again.