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Posted:  02 May 2006 11:53

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I'm planning to do a short tribute to a late friend on a personal website. The problem is - I don't know how to go about this.

I was actually able to capture and edit my friend's videos from VHS (and a sweet drive down memory lane it was), but now I don't know how to make it web-friendly.

Plus, I don't know how all these streaming things go. I've had no experience whatsoever with streaming media (only watched them so far and not created them :P  ).


Can anyone help?
Posted:  02 May 2006 17:28   Last Edited By: cory

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I don't want to repeat everything this site has to offer on the subject, but here's a short outline :

1) Streaming media is served from a streaming server. I've never set one up or administrated one - but it seems fairly straight forward. You have typical web server things to worry about - i.e. the more RAM the better, the better the CPU the less bottlenecking, bandwidth, and of course latency will be the biggest issue. If you don't mind the end users having to wait while the video is being downloaded, you can just link to it - and have them load it client side for viewing.

2) Then you would digitize (put in digital format) using your computer and a video editing application to convert to an acceptable digital format. (Mpeg, quicktime,avi etc).

3) Most streaming server softwares have client side software for you to convert your digitized VHS file to a usable encoding. (real video encoder for example)

I think Real has a free basic encoder somewhere in this heap of a mess :

Real Media Developers Area
Posted:  02 May 2006 23:50

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First thing you should do is to convert them to a standard format or make streaming video's of them. I would suggest flash to you.

As to how it all works, well there's just not enough time to explain it all but google could help you out in  the matter. If your looking to hire someone to do the work for you let me know.

Regards.
Posted:  03 May 2006 09:33

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Ouch! So it wasn't as simple as I thought... Thanks for the info though!


I found out that YouTube and Google Video can host the videos for you, then they can stream it for you as well for free... an although I don't have firsthand experience on this, I'll try it out.
Posted:  25 Jun 2006 02:13

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You mean YouTube is absolute free? But I guess the not-so-good part about it is that it will be seen in public and not only in your website.

I wish you could put a link on the website that you have done so we too can watch the video that you have made. Good luck!