Re: FN-FORUM: Website Video Help

date posted 2nd October 2006 12:32

Hi

I used a company called Streamcity recently and it has worked well for =20=

a site I used video on.

www.streamcity.co.uk.

If you just linked your AVI file straight to your site it could start =20=

eating up your bandwidth allocation quiet quickly.

Streamcity will stream flash video for you at a reasonable cost.. They =20=

will do the encoding for you and send you the html code to embed into =20=

your pages.

Basically it works out about 1p per minute of streamed video. There is =20=

some upfront charges for encoding etc but if you can do this yourself =20=

then you can save that cost. You also get a control panel to view how =20=

much you have streamed etc etc.

Check out there site it may be another way to solve your problem.

Regards

Malc

On 2 Oct 2006, at 11:53 am, Chris Green wrote:

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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 =20
> site.
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> 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 =20=

> to on the site (from what I can gather my host does not support =20
> streamed videos).
>
> Also, is this length/size acceptable, or should I be looking to change =
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> to format to make it smaller. If so any advice over format conversion =20=

> software would be appreciated as what I have searched for on the net =20=

> 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 =20=

> to spend any money on software etc as it would likely be a 1 off.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
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