I can’t get it to work when I press upload video
what happens? any error messages?
First it just put a name on, then it told me the file was too big. It’s about five minutes long, created with windows movie maker.
I would imagine it’s way too large…right-click on the video file on your computer, select “properties” and see what the size is…I would guess it’s over 100MB??
If you try to upload video directly to your site and embed them in the posts, you will run into all kinds of trouble…by default, when you embed a video from your own file system, then that video starts downloading when someone loads the page…even though the video is not playing…imagine one 100+ MB video doing this…then if you have several videos embeded in several posts that are showing on your fontpage, then they all start downloading…your site will be virtually useless.
You need to do a lot of research about the best way to produce and distribute video if you plan to do a lot of this.
Yeah, it is over 100MB. And I do want to put several up. But I also want to eventually make it a subscription only website, so I don’t necessarily want to put it on youtube and then put it on my site from there. Any suggestions…?
There are lots of things you can do to decrease the file size and make it stream a lot faster. But, what you do and how you do it depends on the software you use to create and edit the video. When creating video lots of things will impact file size. You can effectively serve video from your own server, but I would stay away from embedding…just link to them and that way they don’t start downloading until the link is clicked. Publish your video in flash format, etc.
If you could upload that video somewhere and post the download link, I can take a look at it and give some more specific suggestions.
Thank you for your help. I am trying to download it to youtube right now so that i can give you a link to go look at it. Be back shortly…
I don’t know if I’m using the right term by saying embedded. I do want the video to not be a link, but to be viewable from the site. I’ve seen lots of sites where you go to it and the video is there but it doesn’t start playing right away…you push play and then it starts to play.
I’ve seen lots of sites where you go to it and the video is there but it doesn’t start playing right away…you push play and then it starts to play.
True, I have a lot of those embeded from YouTube on my site here:
http://educhalk.org/blog/
The YouTube videos don’t start downloadling until you click them so embeding them is fine. However, see the video here:
http://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/?page_id=149
This one is loaded on my server and although it doesn’t start playing until you click on it, it starts downloading as soon as the page loads. Notice below that video I have links to other videos. That’s because if I had embeded them all on that one page, it would probably lock-up your computer since they would all start downloading at the saem time. That’s what would happen if you had several videos, loaded on your server and embeded in posts…if you had 10 posts showing and a video embeded in each….not good.
I’ve been searching for a way to embed videos loaded on my own server and have them not start downloading until they’re clicked…but haven’t found the secret yet.
Maybe someone else here knows the secret and we can both learn.
By the way, loading the video on YouTube for me to download won’t do any good…I would need to original file to see how I could make it smaller.
Hmm…thank you for continuing to help.
Is it possible to put the video on youtube and set it to private on youtube, so people on youtube can’t see it, and then have it embedded in the site, or would it just tell you that you can’t access it because it’s set to private?
OK, how can I get the video to you then so you can look at it? I don’t know if this helps, but it’s basically a couple title screens at the beginning, about 4 1/2 to 5 minutes of video and then a couple credit screens at the end with transitions between the title screens. And I made it in windows movie maker.
OK, how can I get the video to you then so you can look at it?
Can you ftp it to you site and post a link?
I feel terrible being so clueless when you’re trying to help and I really appreciate the help! I’m pretty comfortable with html and all that, but I’m very new to this stuff. I’m sure I could, I just don’t know how. I have a cpanel…would I do that through file manager?
I have a cpanel…would I do that through file manager?
Maybe, depends on what limit, if any, your host has on uploading through file manager. Just open file manager, go to your public_html directory and press “Upload”. Look at the top and see if there is a file size limit. If not, then upload it and see if it works…I’m doubtful you can upload a file that large in file manager without it timing out, but it’s worth a try.
You’re right…the limit is 50MB…any other suggestions?
Also, I’m supposed to have unlimited bandwidth transfer with my web hosting, but I don’t know if that has anything to do with what I’m trying to do…
I’ve never used them before, but there is a paid service for hosting videos which is getting great reviews:
Amazon Simple Storage Service:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
I think it’s relatively inexpensive and you can host your own videos there. Then you could simply embed your videos on to your website just like you do with YouTube.
I would say if you’re thinking of putting a lot of video on your website/local server, you might want to reconsider. Remember, your site only has so much CPU time and resources allocated to it on your hosting server.
If you host a lot of videos and a ton of people are clicking them, that’s a lot of load on your website which in turn will cause your site to work REALLY slow. And when that happens, people click away.
To get the video over to figaro, you could upload it to YouTube temporarily and then he could download the file from there (there are free programs out there that will allow you to save YouTube video files to your computer).
Once he has it, you can delete it from YouTube.
Good luck guys.
