Video Ignoramus, tips please

[Mark_A]

Ok. I have three websites on a web server A.

I have a video/movie file filename.flv

Out there there is YouTube

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Do I upload the video to YouTube and then get code to embed in my webpages?

Is it that easy?

Anything important I should know about?

[travelin cat]

It's that easy. There are numerous settings in YouTube that you may wish to review when you are uploading the video, but beyond that, it's fairly simple.

[Mark_A]

Thanks TC...

I am looking into it more now..
I have :

filenameHQ.mp4 152,950 kb
filenameLQ.mp4 33,000 kb
filename.flv 30,900 kb

Does it matter which one I use?
Perhaps the first will be higher quality, but people will need to download much more data to see the video.

Wish I knew the filesize of videos I have clicked on to guage what is an acceptable download time.

[Mark_A]

Anyhow ... no worries ... You tube makes things pretty easy .. all done for the time being.

[thecoalman]

Perhaps the first will be higher quality, but people will need to download much more data to see the video

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If you're uploading to youtube they will re-encode it unless it meets their specs. The best thing to do is to upload the highest quality video you have.

Wish I knew the filesize of videos I have clicked on to guage what is an acceptable download time.

The filesize doesn't really matter becsue that is determined by length*bitrate, what matters is the bitrate. I believe youtube uses about 250kbps for regular uploads.


FYI you can serve this from your own server. For .flv all you need is a flash player.