Video on webservers

[Kevin Kinsey]

Darryl Hoar wrote:

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>>"Darryl Hoar" <darryl at osborne-ind.com> wrote:
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>>>Greetings,
>>>I have my own freebsd box that is a webserver (running apache).
>>>My wife has a family oriented website on this server.  She
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>>has videos
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>>>that she has taken with dvd camcorder.  She used Ulead on her
>>>windows machine to create mpg files but 6 minutes generates 200MB
>>>files.
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>>>What is a good technique to provide video's on a website ?
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>>Putting it on the webserver.
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>>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".
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>>--
>>Bill Moran
>>Potential Technologies
>>http://www.potentialtech.com
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>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.
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>Since I am not a video guy, I was wondering if there was a better method to
>provide these videos from our webserver.
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>Is streaming video the way to go?  Or some variation of what I have tried ?
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>I know it can be done as I view video from websites all the time.
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>Thanks for any ideas ,
>Darryl
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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

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