From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 13:41:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D162D16A41F for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:41:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darryl@osborne-ind.com) Received: from ws2.cnweb.com (ws2.cnweb.com [69.50.194.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D2243D46 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:41:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darryl@osborne-ind.com) Received: (qmail 11663 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2006 07:43:18 -0600 Received: from p245n23.ruraltel.net (HELO darryl) (24.225.23.245) by ws2.cnweb.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 07:43:18 -0600 From: "Darryl Hoar" To: "'Bill Moran'" Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:42:40 -0600 Message-ID: <001401c65592$25a3b630$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20060331185258.192f8d81.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Video on webservers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: darryl@osborne-ind.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:41:53 -0000 > > "Darryl Hoar" wrote: > > > Greetings, > > I have my own freebsd box that is a webserver (running apache). > > My wife has a family oriented website on this server. She > has videos > > that she has taken with dvd camcorder. She used Ulead on her > > windows machine to create mpg files but 6 minutes generates 200MB > > files. > > > > What is a good technique to provide video's on a website ? > > Putting it on the webserver. > > However, I expect that there's another, hidden question here. What is > the problem that you're having? Perhaps I'm slow today, but it seems > like you're saying: "I'm going to do this, is that OK?" If that's the > case, then the answer is "yes". > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > What I mean is that the video files she is generating from the dvd camcorder are huge for just a few minutes of video. Since these files are huge, you can't realistically view them from the links on the webserver. Since I am not a video guy, I was wondering if there was a better method to provide these videos from our webserver. Is streaming video the way to go? Or some variation of what I have tried ? I know it can be done as I view video from websites all the time. Thanks for any ideas , Darryl