HTML5 Video Upload

[MLink]

Hi All,

Trying to sort out what I believe is a fairly complex issue that only a few of the major video services are doing.

We are developing site that will have a high turnover of user-uploaded videos. The specs for the site are to be both Flash and HTML5 optimized.

How does YouTube pull this off without having the user upload both file formats (say, an FLV and MP4 file)?

I am looking for a single upload solution. No matter what the user is uploading, their video ends up online optimized for Flash and HTML5. Far as I know both YouTube and Vimeo are on this wagon. I don't know of many others that are.


Thank you,

MLink

[Eye for Video]

Well it will require a pretty healthy, server side solution. For starters you'll need your own dedicated server because of the type of software application you'll need to install. Don't know of any exact match for what you what but you'll need to get familiar with some of the common solutions for transcoding uploaded video.
One solution is PHPMotion:
http://www.phpmotion.com/
sort of based on a core of
http://ffmpeg.org/
Either of those will do the Flash portion but you may need to hire developers to provide the second video file option built into your app.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com

[brad jones]

There are third party tools you can buy to convert a video file to various other types, but that is generally a manual process and not likely what you are wanting to do.

Brad!