travelin cat
msg:3901528 | 2:04 pm on Apr 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
HelenDev, This site will give you statistics gleaned from the World Bank: [nationmaster.com...] I would definitely go the low bandwidth route either by shorter clips or by higher compression. Transcriptions are always a good idea for every type of video, regardless of the audience. The seo benefits are well worth the time and effort to create them.
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RossWal
msg:3904160 | 4:41 pm on Apr 30, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Suggest you also consider your video hosting platform. For example the host I use own lots of fiber accoss North America, a tiny bit into the UK, and nothing into Asia. A global CDN might be a better choice - for you and me too. Windows Media has a muti-plexing option enabling streaming at different bitrates depending on the connection bandwidth as detected by the streaming server. Flash probably has an equivalent.
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wrockca
msg:3951723 | 6:52 pm on Jul 13, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The issues that I have with posting the YouTube code on my site is that once the video is done you have no control of the next videos... Also if your page has good content you run the risk of your vendors tagging their stuff and it displaying on your site... Anyhow if you do decide to host your videos I would suggest a good provider that can deploy a Virtual Environment to all you to add ram, cpu and disk space without downtime.
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HelenDev
msg:3952916 | 12:48 pm on Jul 15, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for all your advice guys. Now there is just the small matter of getting the videos made, but I'm sure I'll look back here later on when I need to address the hosting issues.
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thecoalman
msg:3958063 | 1:40 pm on Jul 23, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I've experimented with WMV at some really low bitrates. I was able to create a 280X210 using about 70kbps total. You can only achieve this by cutting corners, drop the framerate to about 10FPS. The video may be a little choppy but since we only have 10 frames a second you'll have more bitrate to distribute to each frame. This will eliminate a lot of the macroblocking producing a better looking video. The video was encoded using about 50kbps. For the audio make it mono and 20kbps, WMA is outstanding at low bitrates and you can even go lower than that if its speech. This particular video was for a band. It's not great but it will almost stream on 56K...
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HelenDev
msg:3960305 | 2:54 pm on Jul 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
This might help with regard to some countries too [news.bbc.co.uk ]
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