inquiry Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 We all know about youtube and google video, etc. I want to put several short videos demonstrating the features and functions of bridgebrowser. I have prepared a number of videos. I can even compress them myself down to a few megabytes and they still look nice. The problem I have is that when i try the online video sharing sites, they take my video which wasn't a full screen size any way, actually 789 x 557. When the youtube/google people compress it, the text from the screen capture becomes virtually unreadable. I assume because they shrink it by about 50%. Is there a better solution? Anyone think if I change my screen resolution to make it full screen and capture it the reduction would still be readable? I know there are dozens of sites... but i don't think I want to try them all, as creating an account. Uploading a video that then looks horrible, then deleting it and probably never using the account again seems tiresome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Someone suggested saving as flash and then embedding flash on the webpage. I have some converted to flash, and will see if stephen can post them on the homebase webpage that way. In the mean while, I the best I have been able to do is post on jumpcut (a yahoo product). IF viewed in the "full" mode the text is readable, but jumpcut messed the colors up a lot. Anyway, you can see where I was trying to go if you look at this short video (8 minutes) Video example of bridgebrowser This video shows the main window, the basic function of three of the "tab views", a partnership window, the player tab -- where i look up hands by jimmy cayne -- and the very basic introduction to the analysis tab, with some statistics (average imps and standard deviation), and some plotting routines, and how to use the plotting routines to pull out hands of interest (hands opened 1NT with 18 hcp, and some 7 heart contracts). The video and the audio don't run together towards the end. Not sure why, and this was just an attempt to figure out how to do this, so this is not polished,,, it was more or less off the top of my head. Ideas and/or help would be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Depending on the size of the demand, I don't see why you couldn't just put these videos up for direct download on www.bridgebase.com. Maybe the demand would be bigger than I imagine though, so here are a couple of good options you could consider: Rapidshare...check out Rapidshare This is a free file sharing service that allows you to upload files and distribute a link for direct downloading. There are limitations, but as long as the file is less than 100 MB (and these certainly are), the only one that would affect you is that non-paying users have to wait up to an hour (depending on how big the files are) between downloads when getting multiple files. This would only be a serious pain if you have more than 2 or 3 videos you want to distribute. But it's very easy and you can keep your files full size for readability. Bit Torrent...check out Bit Torrent FAQ This is a method of file sharing that is a touch less user friendly, but still pretty easy. Anyone who has used it could write a short tutorial (I volunteer I suppose) to get all but the most technophobic people up and running (I've walked people who know very little through it on IM even). Again you could keep your videos full size, and this time you would not have the limitation of waiting for multiple downloads, or even the 100 MB limit. You also get the benefit of shared server load...as long as a few people keep their connections open anyone can download it at any time with no cost to bridgebase. Both of these would allow you to distribute a nice readable video. Granted it would be downloading a file that the user would then have to open themselves rather than simply clicking on a link in a webpage, but anyone who can get bridgebase running should be able to handle that. With some of these sites, finding the "full screen" option is harder than that. I don't think you're going to find a good video sharing site that won't highly compress the video to unreadability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I seem to remember uday knowing a way of making online screen capture video easily, and the resulting file is small. Bug uday or desi, I think they know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmunro Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Perhaps this is an answer. This guy talks about using Amazon's servers to stream your video.I have given two links because they illustrate your problem. They are the same video in two different delivery forms: the first is using Brightcove, which is similar to YouTube; the second uses Amazon's servers to stream the video. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=7...annel=770166766http://www.askmrvideo.com/cam/s3/ I think people use Amazon's servers because of the cost saving. Or you could stream it from your own website: http://movavi.com/videoconverter/tutorials/stream.html I am not an expert on any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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