I haven't hosted video, but I do alot of video encoding.....some insight below...
>A few questions about hosting video files for those of you who have done it... > > 1. what fomat have you found to have the most widespread ease of > use/acceptance. I'd like to embed these in the page. Any particular > CODECs/compression that work best...these will be for product > demos...the size does not need to be enormous. Use Flash...then I don't think you'll have nearly the client side problems you would playing actual video formats. > 2. assuming that you are provided with fairly large AVI files, what > are the best programs out there for compressing those into whatever > that best format is(see question 1). AVI is about as compressed as it gets (unless it gets even smaller once inside Flash) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233578 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
