DAYLIMOTION is the only thruth European's competitor of YouTube. daylimotion logo
Daylimotion opened one month before YouTube and, the only difference is that: Daylimotion was open in France and for France's web and YouTube in Usa for the Usa's web: the numbers of users are very different and now, the success can to understand how to web industry is functioning..
Ok; now, with 55 million of user every month, with the possibily to upload HD videos, , with an useful copyright protecion (Daylimotion implemented an acoustic fingerprinting system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.) could consider daylimotion a really good alternative to YouTube.
Others technique carateristiques: "The maximum size of a video file is 2 Gigabytes. The length of the video file is also limited to 20 minutes. If, however, the user has use of Motionmaker, these restrictions are removed. Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion are converted to the VP6 codec at a resolution of 320x240. Motionmaker users can upload at a resolution of 640x480 or 1280x720. Audio on Dailymotion videos are encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo." from. Wikipedia