is a 36mb video way too big?

[Esk247]

customer wants me to add a 36mb video clip to his website for streaming video..its of an interview...never dealt with video lengths larger than 3mb so is 36mb going to take years to stream?

[Calibre Designs]

In a nutshell YES ! :)
Why not convert it to flash for streaming.

[Esk247]

In a nutshell YES ! :)
Why not convert it to flash for streaming.

think thats what i'll have to do...was hoping to put it on the server and just link up to it and stream it through media player..looks like sticking it through flash to optimise it for the web is going to be the best option then.

[alphanumeric]

tbh depends on bit rate, i made a 380 x 240 video clip for a client was about 6 mins long and about 22meg (they wanted it high quality). Streams fine in flash with maybe a 10 second buffer time for anyone on or around a 2meg connection.

Client was happy :)

[bluecm]

You could always offer a low res and a high res version.

[Esk247]

think i'll have to keep the res the same..its not the best film quality. its not something i'm being paid for, just a freebie so i'm not wanting to spend too long on it..and it will be changed at a later date anyway..i'll run it all through flash first and see what size i come up with!

[davidshaw89]

once you have made the file smaller, you could upload to youtube?

It is likely to be much quicker at streaming that way, than if you streamed directly from your client's server.

[Esk247]

once you have made the file smaller, you could upload to youtube?

It is likely to be much quicker at streaming that way, than if you streamed directly from your client's server.

well i've converted to swf and fla and flv but wasn't sure what youtube will allow for file types or size! i'm trying to keep the audio synchronised as well because of it being an interview.

[davidshaw89]

I uploaded a video which was about 56Mb to youtube, so I think you will be fine. The format I used was mpeg.

I used DVD ripper v1.02 to take the file off a CD (where the movie and sound files were seperated) and convert it - this keeps the sound and video in sync and the quality is acceptable as well.

[DesignsOnline]

Just convert it to FLV format and stream it from an SWF file: for example fo large videos streamed through flash see:

http://www.learn-medical-statistics.com
http://www.ocean7video.com/corporate/video1.html
http://www.magicwheel.org/

Warm Regards,
Joe

[davidhowell]

As Designsonline said.. just convert the footage into the flv format, which should reduce the file size (I'm assuming the 36mb is in some other format). There shouldn't be any issue with streaming files of that size.

If you don't want to stream it yourself try Vimeo..

[F1SEO]

I just did one for a client, AVI -> FLV. 9 minute video and got it down from a 400mb AVI to 41mb of FLV. It was about the best before quality became an issue.

I found iOrgsoft FLC Converter to be the best. Then use ANVSoft Web FLV player to generate the HTML code. All worked like a charm.

FLV is the way to go ..

[DSGameMaker]

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/jw-flv-media-player-a-feature-rich-solution/

[JamieBeeston]

36MB on a standard 8mbit DSL link is 45-60 seconds to download.. hardly an eternity.. but as has been mentioned, converting to flv will make it much easier to stream.

[vzaar]

ESK247

At vzaar we encode video (of most formats) into flash so that you can serve video easily and quickly. If you want to know more check us out or by all means send me a PM with your details.

All the best
Jamie

[cmcp]

I'm another fan of FLV streaming videos read in with a good quality flash player.

Check out Flowplayer.

[Made4Print]

If its an FLV it should be fine, however if you have tens or hundreds of thousands downloading it there could be additional bandwidth charges depending on how you host it.

[Esk247]

think we'll just youtube/vimeo or something else it...we don't want to host via our website as we are hopefully going to end up with 250 under 10 minute videos..thats a hell of a lot of server space! would rather burden the big players with it.