video file sizes

[plateman]

how large or small are your video file sizes? and what are you using

we have some tech movies mpeg-4 320x240 30 min 15fps 400kbps and i ended up with 115mb and about 25min upload time

do those numbers sound about right?

[Cleo]

That is on the small side for a 30 min at that size.

I started doing all my movies at 30fps so that they could be scrubbed online and as an added benefit discovered that offline that scrubbed smoothly without locking up the player which was an issue when I rendered them at 15 fps.

[plateman]

Originally Posted by Cleo

That is on the small side for a 30 min at that size.

I started doing all my movies at 30fps so that they could be scrubbed online and as an added benefit discovered that offline that scrubbed smoothly without locking up the player which was an issue when I rendered them at 15 fps.

cleo question please

when having 5 or 6 100 - 150 meg movies on a page, what did you do to prevent IE from loading all the movies when using embeds and having auto play off?

what I found was to make 1 frame place holder movies and using this code example

controller="false" href="http://www.yourdomain/your-video.mov" target="myself"

[Cleo]

I always put them inside a Flash player using JW Player.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players

[plateman]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I always put them inside a Flash player using JW Player.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players

thanks for your time

I did find the place holder method to be a good way around once I tested it and the extra 2 steps were fast and simple

I used my vid splitter and cut a few frames off the start and changed the code and its works good, now I can have many 100 + meg movies stream mpeg-4 in a members area and have fast page load times as none of the movies start to DL while the page loads, then all the customer has todo is double click on one of the vids and the whole movie file starts as well as the DL

http://library.creativecow.net/artic...ime-movies.php

[plateman]

here's that code article if anybody needs it

Setting up your Quicktime Movie to play only when it is clicked on is important for the best performance and cross platform and browser compatibility. When Quicktime Movies download and play when a user enters the page many times the users' browser locks up, freezes, crashes, or it causes the page to load extremely slow. This problem is most common in the Internet Explorer browser. A good work around to fix this is load a single frame placeholder movie that the user can click on to play the full length movie. This requires that you create an additional single frame Quicktime Movie that will let them know they need to click it to see the full length movie.

To achieve this some adjustments must be made to the embed element. The src parameter must be changed to the URL of the placeholder single frame movie, and autoplay must be set to false. Additionally a few new parameters must be added:

controller="false" href="http://www.yourdomain/your-video.mov" target="myself"

The new embed html code that includes this element looks something like this:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="256" width="320">

<param name="src" value="http://www.yourdomain/clickhere.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="target" value="myself">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="href" value="http://www.yourdomain/your-video.mov">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" height="256" width="320">

<embed src="http://www.yourdomain/clickhere.mov" height="256" width="320" autoplay="false" type="video/quicktime" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" controller="false" href="http://www.yourdomain/your-video.mov" target="myself"></embed>

</object>