RE: FN-FORUM: Website Video Help

date posted 2nd October 2006 11:50

you could put it on youtube. theres loads of scripts out there for embedding youtube movies in your pages. saves bandwidth, allows video-display-in-page saves YOU time but does come with youtube logos on the player. still, I dont think thats a bad price to pay.


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>Just building a website (HTML) for a client.
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>They have now asked for a video to be viewable/downloadable on the site.
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>They have provided a 1 minute AVI file which is 5Mb in size.
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>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).
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>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.
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>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.
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>Any advice would be much appreciated.
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>Cheers,
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>Chris.
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