Five minutes isn't really that long. What you don't want to do is attempt to use anything much longer than that as a "Progressive Download". I was asking about the length just to make sure for instance, you weren't trying to throw up a 45 minute video or something. I'd hate for you to be disappointed. You can run into problems with video that's longer than about 5 minutes if you're not streaming it with things like audio drift, etc.
The original's quality would be "measured" in terms of things like, "how many frames per second?" (you'd want something close to 29.97 fps) and "what are the physical size of the frames?" (NTSC video is 720 pixels by 480, and PAL video is 720 by 576) and what is the audio encoded at? (Sample Rate, Bit Depth, etc). So a high quality original would be around 29.97 fps, 720x480, CD quality audio... It simply helps Flash and any of the other video encoders if you start with the highest quality source video. If the video's been encoded already in something like mpeg, or wmv, then you'll run into quality issues there as well, as the encoder actually has to *decode* something before it can encode it, and most of those are very lossy encodings, especially things like mpeg. If you've got a high quality original, and it's at about 5 minutes or under, you should be fine converting it to flash video and simply serving it as a progressive download. My two cents. -----Original Message----- From: Jenny Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Video Hi Jeff, I'm on new ground here, the duration is just over 5 mins. What stats do you need to know on quality, or can you give me some guidance, please? Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2006 21:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Video The size doesn't really mean anything to me. What I'd be most interested in is, "what is the duration and quality of the original?" Those are going to play a bigger role than the actual size of the original file. -- Jeff Small LHWH Advertising Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 843-448-1123 Ext 254 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jenny Gavin-Wear To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: RE: Video Thanks for all the replies, I'm getting the gist of it. I have a 192mb .VOB file to convert to flash then. Anyone know if this still going to be so large when converted to flash? I'm wary of this thing being a bandwidth hogger. Also, if anyone knows of a good .vob to flash converter it would be great. Thanks again, Jenny -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.2/393 - Release Date: 19/07/2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
