Closed Questions about uploading videos

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Hunting dogs

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Can members upload videos to Zoo Chat and, if so, what format does the website support? All of my videos are in QuickTime format rather than Windows Media Player, but I have been told on Wild About Britain's forum that people generally have to put their videos onto YouTube or other video sharing sites first, and from there they can put a link to the clips onto the forum. Is that the case with Zoo Chat? If so, then can anybody tell me how to quickly put videos onto Youtube - I am already a member of YouTube but am horrified at how long my clips take to put on there, as much as 1 hour for a 2-minute clip! And they're not the highest quality videos either! Would another video site like Vimeo, Dailymotion or Metacafe be quicker to upload clips to, or do they all take ages and ages?

Hope you can help!
 
Currently, videos can only be linked to via YouTube (or similar site). Videos are large files. I'm not surprised at the length of upload time. The only quicker way is a higher bandwidth.
 
I am planning on adding video support in the next version of ZooChat, hopefully ready later this year.

jbnbsn99 is correct - the only way to speed up video uploads is higher bandwidth, it will be just as slow to sites like Vimeo.

However, different video codecs allow different amounts of compression - if you choose a higher compression rate, the file size will be smaller and will take less time to upload. The trade-off though is lower quality video - although if the original video was very high quality, you can afford to lose some detail and still retain a viewable video.

When I do add video support, my plan is to allow all the major video file types to be uploaded and they will be automatically converted on the server (just like YouTube and Vimeo), however, the core format used will likely be .mp4 with a H.264 codec, so if you upload that you will get the best results.

Question for you - what was the file size of your 2 minute video clip you uploaded?
 
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