From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 22:17:17 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 B0D5216A401 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30A243D53 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:17:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k31MFDnV051081; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:15:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <442EFB67.3000000@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:15:03 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 'Bill Moran' 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 22:17:17 -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 > > Probably not the best answer, and some details are lacking (furthermore it's rather OT), but if she's using ULead on Windows, there's probably a way around this there. I do know that the MSFT "Windows Movie Maker" has various options for output type --- one of these might be more suitable for 'net distribution. To be slight more "On" topic for the list: running "make search key=video" under /usr/ports does show a few programs that might be of assistance, but I've not tried any of them, myself. Kevin Kinsey -- poisoned coffee, n: Grounds for divorce.