RE: FN-FORUM: Website Video Help

date posted 2nd October 2006 11:50

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Chris Green
> Sent: 02 October 2006 11:52
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> Subject: FN-FORUM: Website Video Help
>
>
> 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.
>
[Gary Short]
Hello Chris,

I run the Carnoustie Golf Links' (home of The Open 2007) vlog. Your best bet is
to make the video viewable on site by converting it to flv (flash video, tools
available free on line) this will cause it to stream. Also convert to mp4 for
download. Mp4 is compressed format that will be viewable via quicktime. The
advantage of this is that the file is compressed and therefore faster to
download and quicktime is available for the majority of platforms.

HTH,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org/