Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:14:49 +0100 From: Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video on webservers Message-ID: <442E8AD9.7030309@firebadger.net> In-Reply-To: <001401c65592$25a3b630$0701a8c0@darryl> References: <001401c65592$25a3b630$0701a8c0@darryl>
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Darryl Hoar wrote: > <snip> >> "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com> 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 > A lot of it depends on what the videos are encoded with? What are the res, bit rates and audio streams in the files. Try using a different codec or google for video compressors. Cheers Richard
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