From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 14:15:06 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 144FC16A424 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: from mail.firebadger.net (82-69-4-157.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ECD443D45 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:15:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: (qmail 5762 invoked by uid 1011); 1 Apr 2006 14:27:50 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.10 by brian.firebadger.net (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87.1/1197. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(192.168.1.10):SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 3.180107 secs); 01 Apr 2006 14:27:50 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER-Mail-From: richard@firebadger.net via brian.firebadger.net X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(192.168.1.10):SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 3.180107 secs Process 5754) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.10?) (richard@firebadger.net@192.168.1.10) by mail.firebadger.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 14:27:46 -0000 Message-ID: <442E8AD9.7030309@firebadger.net> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:14:49 +0100 From: Richard Collyer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001401c65592$25a3b630$0701a8c0@darryl> In-Reply-To: <001401c65592$25a3b630$0701a8c0@darryl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Video on webservers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:15:06 -0000 Darryl Hoar wrote: > >> "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 > 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