Re: FN-FORUM: Website Video Help

date posted 2nd October 2006 11:39

On 2 Oct 2006 10:51:00 -0000, Chris Green
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>
> Just building a website (HTML) for a client.
>
> They have now asked for a video to be viewable/downloadable on the site.
>
> They have provided a 1 minute AVI file which is 5Mb in size.
>
> Does anyone have any advice as to whether this should be just linked to
> on the site (from what I can gather my host does not support streamed
> videos).
>
> Also, is this length/size acceptable, or should I be looking to change
> to format to make it smaller. If so any advice over format conversion
> software would be appreciated as what I have searched for on the net
> either costs a lot or seems to be riddled with adware/spyware etc.
>
> As it's quite a budget project for the client, I'm not really looking to
> spend any money on software etc as it would likely be a 1 off.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Chris.

Chris,

Is it a single file that you're hosting?
How many downloads do you expect of it?
Is it something that could be streamed instead of downloaded, or does
it need to be repeatedly viewed?

FLV conversion is very popular at the moment. The quality can be
quite good depending on the settings, and it can usually get a file
down to about a tenth of the size. The added bonus is you can just
embed it as a flash file too, as long as their browser(s) support it.

Rich.