On 10 May 2009, at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote:
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Well, using undvd stripped out an 86MB .avi file, which I've
uploaded to the
Web site.
FWIW I don't believe undvd's AVI files to be very specification
compliant. The author implemented .mp4 support after I pointed this
out to him, and I have found those to be very good indeed - they play
on a variety of systems (PS3, Mac) and with very good quality (use the
2-pass option).
...
Is there a way to stream an avi file through a browser? Just
clicking on it
in Firefox causes it to be downloaded first, which might well put
people
off when it takes so long.
I think all the videos you see streamed on the web are stored as .flv
files. mplayer can convert to .flv, then it looks like you upload it -
and a player - to your server along with a little HTML. This <http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
> appears to be (based on?) the same player YouTube uses.
Having said that, why not just upload the avi or mp4 to YouTube or
Google video? I assume the material is not under restricted copyright.
Stroller.
