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James nle
09-14-2003, 10:16 AM
I have no knowledge of this whatsoever. I have a video - file name "Near Life Experience Promo (stream).wmv" , I would like people to be able to click on a link in order to view this video, firstly what do I need to do to have it run, either imbedded or in a seperate window (whatever is easier for the average joe to watch), and secondly how do I upload it, my ftp server (ws_ftp) has a warning saying "disc size exceeded" when I tried to get it online.
Please Help!!!
96turnerri
09-14-2003, 10:53 AM
you will have to delete some things from it, and i am working on an answer to your other question
James nle
09-14-2003, 10:58 AM
Thanks, what is the best way of deleting stuff from it as it is a single file, or is there a way of uploading a zipped version and having it still work?
96turnerri
09-14-2003, 11:01 AM
no not really then when access it has to be unzip which is not easy to program and can be quite slow
James nle
09-14-2003, 11:05 AM
Hi, its 11.4 MB at the mo, all I have is the this version on a cdrom and I am not sure how to shrink it, waht will be the most efficiant way of getting it online and then letting people watch it...
96turnerri
09-14-2003, 01:13 PM
you could try a video editing program? and reduce the quality sligthly, also i dont know if its the same with videos, but say a bmp is ALOT more larger than a jpg so you might try changing the xtension
NO!!!!!
you cant just change the extension!!!!!!!
that is dont just rename it's extension!
if you want to reduce quality (and filesize) use a video editing prog to do so.
on to streaming:
<embed src="filename">
ok?
please note that embeding a large file will mean that other people will have to load a 14 mb movie just to see the page (you better put it on a seperate page).
96turnerri
09-15-2003, 10:21 AM
thats what i said use a video editing program you should at least read posts before replying to them :D
DaveSW
09-15-2003, 12:04 PM
LOL - it's gotta be said buddy, that really did sound like change the extension of the video to .jpg LOL.
Just experiment with different encoding resolutions etc. Or cut a few scenes out...