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What video format is best for streaming, and does Google Drive support it?
JethroUK
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I have created a series tutorial videos as .avi
I also have designed a web page to show the order of the videos and links to the same to make it easy as poss for the end user to follow
I have stored this 'website' on my google drive (cloud drive) and it works fine
but, avi videos have to download before they can run - i want them to stream
i can convert the videos to any format
What video format is best for streaming, and does Google Drive support it?
I also have designed a web page to show the order of the videos and links to the same to make it easy as poss for the end user to follow
I have stored this 'website' on my google drive (cloud drive) and it works fine
but, avi videos have to download before they can run - i want them to stream
i can convert the videos to any format
What video format is best for streaming, and does Google Drive support it?
When will the "Edit" and "Quote" button get fixed on the mobile web interface?
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Well this is a massive question that sounds so simple but there is a lot to this in fact.
Simply put, upload them to youtube and embed them on your website.
If you want to go down the rabbit hole you need to encode to a codec like mpeg4 and use a container format that supports either true streaming or progressive download (via rtmp or http) then use a host that can also support that. Google drive is good for sharing files slowly, but the spec required to stream video over a network takes a very different design. I would suggest S3 and cloudfront from Amazon AWS which will support that speed, although you will still need to host the player as well. It is not a cheap or easy thing to get right, it is highly specialist, and most people never even realise how deep the hole goes...
Youtube does it all for you for free... Take advantage of that!0 -
no doubt the AVI files are large as its a lossless uncompressed format. The best format for the web is MP4. I recently made a charity tour video in CS6 After Effects that came out at 128Gbs in AVI. I then used Format Factory (free) to convert it to MP4 which dropped it to 768Mbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
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no doubt the AVI files are large as its a lossless uncompressed format. The best format for the web is MP4. I recently made a charity tour video in CS6 After Effects that came out at 128Gbs in AVI. I then used Format Factory (free) to convert it to MP4 which dropped it to 768Mbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
hope this helps
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Converted all the videos to mp4 - the files are tiny compared to original avi - yet still perfectly watchable - stream nicely from Internet Explorer and to my surprise - they stream from Google Chrome too - in fact even faster
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