thecoalman - 4:47 pm on Jun 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

mg? If you mean MB thats not very much for a 30 minute video. Using WMV and resolution of about 320x240 with a bitrate of about 150-200 you could probably get it around there but the quality is not going to be all that great. You can create these with Windows Movie Make or if you want more control download Windows Media encoder from MS's site.

If you only need to provide the video and not necessarily embed the file in a webpage WMV is your best bet, any windows machine will play it. You only have to upload the file to your server and point a link to the file. The player client side will take care of the "streaming", the difference between it and a real streaming server is they won't be able to fast forward.

The only thing more compatible that WMV is MPEG1 but that requires 4X the file size for comparable quality. It will play on almost any platform.

If you need to embed it use .flv and a flash player.