Video Implementation

My personal opinion is that the best way to handle this on the cheap is
(sorry for saying) to get either the producer of the video to host the file,
or have he/she/it* upload it to a free long term storage site.
Unfortunately there are few other options that do not completely kill the
quality of this potentially good video. Imagine someone making a nice,
albeit short, commercial for Ubuntu Linux, almost ready to run on TV, and
that someone is told by the SpreadUbuntu team to upload the video in "Super
High Quality" YouTube (two things that do not go together are YouTube and
quality). A sad end for a good video. Someone doing a video production in
college or elsewhere might (I know I would) want to use this to run as a
fake commercial to slot into their video made for study, or internet
release. Be sad if they couldn't due to quality loss.

Am I being too concerned about loss of quality, or are there others that
agree?

/John 'nox' Hand

*welcome to the 21rst century, my name is HAL 9000, I will be your server
for the day!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Evan Boldt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #48736 on SpreadUbuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/+question/48736
>
> It's not impossible for us to implement 'marketing' videos, but I have
> serious doubts that the current server will be able to withstand any sort of
> traffic as it is. It also adds another layer of complexity. Could be done in
> the future, but I don't think so right now.
>
> So, with implementing it ourselves not being 100% ruled out, what should we
> do for the time being?
>
> We could create a youtube (or open source friendly video hosting site)
> account and manage a playlist or something.
> We could outsource to an existing Ubuntu video site, but most of these are
> tutorials, not marketing videos.
> We could just let people post preview images and link to an external site
> in the node body (or even a cck field).
> Torrents? (almost definitely not a good idea)
>
> I'm also open to suggestions of other ways.
>
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That's a very good problem that I didn't think of. I noticed that youtube is now allowing new videos to be 'high quality' videos, but even then i have my doubts that it would meet the quality needs.

Perhaps a combination of 1&3. Encourage people to post their video to (video site), embed that in the node for previews, and have a download link to a second external site with the unmodified video file.

Nick Ali and I have been using blip.tv for http://ubuntupodcast.net

You can use the flash embedded, or you link the video file directly from
their site, and use their bandwidth.

Just a thought.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Evan Boldt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #48736 on SpreadUbuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/+question/48736
>
> It's not impossible for us to implement 'marketing' videos, but I have
> serious doubts that the current server will be able to withstand any sort of
> traffic as it is. It also adds another layer of complexity. Could be done in
> the future, but I don't think so right now.
>
> So, with implementing it ourselves not being 100% ruled out, what should we
> do for the time being?
>
> We could create a youtube (or open source friendly video hosting site)
> account and manage a playlist or something.
> We could outsource to an existing Ubuntu video site, but most of these are
> tutorials, not marketing videos.
> We could just let people post preview images and link to an external site
> in the node body (or even a cck field).
> Torrents? (almost definitely not a good idea)
>
> I'm also open to suggestions of other ways.
>
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