> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> My son-in-law has some 1080 HD video of the kids he'd like to be able to
> put on-line for relatives to view...
>
> Any suggestions? The only real requirement is to make a dramatic
> reduction in the file size while still leaving something worthwhile
> viewing on the computer.
Probably not the advice you're looking for, but if you really want it to be
"on-line," you need to make it streamable, and it needs to be on a server that
offers streaming. It's pretty unpleasant to download an entire video file to
your disk, and then watch it later. That's a sure way to have your video
ignored!
Ever notice at YouTube how there's a progress bar and a cursor integrated just
beneath the video? That's an indication that the video is being streamed. The
progress bar is showing you how much of the movie has downloaded, while the
cursor shows you where you are viewing.
I'm only familiar with Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server, which is included
with Mac OS X Server. But I'm sure there are others -- probably free for Linux.
So it's a two-fold problem; making the file small is just part of it. Finding a
place to park it where he can stream it is perhaps the harder part.
If it's under ten minutes, he could put them on YouTube. He would have to
convert it to .FLV (Flash Video) format first, but there are probably free
tools for that.
So, without knowing anything else about his situation, I'd say look at how
people are putting stuff on YouTube, and do the same.
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