hi,
by recompress you mean like .zip it (or some other compression)? and then uncompress when someone streams the video?
[web] Youtube-like website
No, he means video compression. That is, use a video codec that allows you to compress the video pretty well, while not loosing too much video quality.
i see. do you guys know any tool that would allow real-time conversion of video while it is being uploaded?
(ie, while user is uploading a video file, it is being converted to flash .flv file format).
preferably free/open-source.
thanks!
(ie, while user is uploading a video file, it is being converted to flash .flv file format).
preferably free/open-source.
thanks!
You will need to do the video processing after the upload. What your asking for is fairly specific, so if you can't find anything on Google then you are probably out of luck. Macromedia/Adobe's server software is is Flash Media Servers http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/ but it doesnt appear to do encoding. The have a service called Flash Video Streaming Service, which handles encoding and delivery http://www.adobe.com/products/flashcom/fvss/.
You don't have to necessarily use Flash. The people who created DivX have an ActiveX plugin. Take a look at http://www.stage6.com/. I'm sure you could easily create a script that encodes videos to DivX.
Edit: The fact is that if you are worried about bandwidth costs then you probably can't afford it. I don't know of any video site that is breaking even, let alone making a profit. Like someone said above, YouTube is burning through a million dollars a month. If you have a killer idea then you are looking at a similar situation before you can consider make a profit.
It would be possible with the help of some venture capital, but video services are a dime a dozen these days. Think seriously of what is required your end. What would you do if you do start raking in traffic? Could you handle it? Perhaps you need to rethink the exact solution you are after. Lots of sites act as aggregators. Take a look at http://www.videosift.com. Something like that would cost almost nothing to set up and run.
You don't have to necessarily use Flash. The people who created DivX have an ActiveX plugin. Take a look at http://www.stage6.com/. I'm sure you could easily create a script that encodes videos to DivX.
Edit: The fact is that if you are worried about bandwidth costs then you probably can't afford it. I don't know of any video site that is breaking even, let alone making a profit. Like someone said above, YouTube is burning through a million dollars a month. If you have a killer idea then you are looking at a similar situation before you can consider make a profit.
It would be possible with the help of some venture capital, but video services are a dime a dozen these days. Think seriously of what is required your end. What would you do if you do start raking in traffic? Could you handle it? Perhaps you need to rethink the exact solution you are after. Lots of sites act as aggregators. Take a look at http://www.videosift.com. Something like that would cost almost nothing to set up and run.
Use ffmpeg on a server you have shell access to. See this thread of mine. Works great. Note that you should either pay for an mp3 encoding license or find a server in a place where the mp3 patent (or software patents in general) are invalid.
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Use ffmpeg on a server you have shell access to. See this thread of mine. Works great. Note that you should either pay for an mp3 encoding license or find a server in a place where the mp3 patent (or software patents in general) are invalid.
Seconded. Ffmpeg works very well for one of my past projects.
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