most of the other video sites out there don't allow video recordings of an hour in length or file sizes greater than 1GB or have a decent Flash Player.
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Most of our video files are 3~4GB in size and once compressing them the video quality is shot.
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Most of our video files are 3~4GB in size and once compressing them the video quality is shot.
Using x264 (two passes, high profile 4.1, and the right cropping), and considering the talks would be 40min (Luc's talk IIRC) to 60 min, it should be possible to get better than Youtube HD-like quality for 300-500Mo. Especially if the video quality is good to start with. If it's about allowing people to download them, that would probably be the wisest choice (IIRC you can get file hosting for free below 500Mo/file, maybe up to 1Go/file). Eventually, I could send you back the mencoder script that works, and provided you've got something better than an Atom it should be faster than uploading it to Youtube.
For streaming inside the article, there's Youtube and (better) Dailymotion. However, most of your readers would be using an x64 arch for their OS, since that's what PTS use instead of i386. Since 64 bits Flash plugin is a pain in the neck, and 32 bit through ndiswrapper is the same, eventually the use of the <video> html tag + Theora would be the only streaming solution that would work without having to install an i386 version in order for your readers to watch video on Phoronix.
Dailymotion offers <video> + Theora IIRC, and it works ok in Firefox. It's only for some videos, but if they offer you the choice at upload time, you'd get embedded video with Theora and Flash for those few users stuck with IE6 on Windows.
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