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Technical Help & Discussion => Website Design & Programming => Topic started by: notaclue on August 10, 2004, 16:22
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Hopefully I should be going on a trip soon & am looking at borrowing a digital camcorder to take with me. Iv got video edtiting software which i want to add background music too etc. Then, so the other people on the trip can see the vid I would like to put it on the net.
I do not have a website or anything & currently use 'photobucket' & other simmilar hosts for any pics but I was wondering if there are any that will hosts videos for free?
Or is there some other way I can do this.
Thanks!
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Hmmm... That's a pretty tall order!
Video files in any format are usually quite large. You'll need webspace with a hosting provider which allows video streaming, while allowing you the bandwidth needed for people to view them.
Is it all beginning to sound a bit expensive now? Why not burn the video to CD and post it, instead? You'll save money and won't burst your brain building and maintaining a website.
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I'd quite like a website. Iv got dreamweaver,fireworks & flash to design pages with.
What do I need to do & how much will it cost?
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Hi. I don't know if you have 56k dial-up or ADSL but Plusnet offer 250mb of webspace with their ADSL acounts. Hosting is £1 per month.
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Do you know how big this video is going to be, in mbs or gbs ?
Storage capacity is one thing, bandwith is another thing altogether.
If you had a 50mb vid file on and ten people downloaded it one day that may well excede your monthly bandwith limit :(
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No idea how long it will be sorry. I would think about an hours worth of filming after editing possibly. The last time we took a VHS camcorder & I made copys but its a bit old & the battery life is poor. Next time Im hoping to borrow / buy a digital one.
I suppose at least then I can make DVD copys of it.
Im on wannado broadband current speed @ 576.0kbps.How will I know what my monthly bandwidth is?
Plusnet seems a good thing
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Dunno mate but I can check for you
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Ok. Basic cost is:-
512k - 10x faster - Download a 5MB file in less than 2 minutes £14.99
1Mb - 20x faster - Download a 5MB file in less than 1 minute £23.99
2Mb - 40x faster - Download a 5MB file in less than 30 seconds £31.99
These include 1gb bandwidth then it's £1.59 per gig extra up to 5gig at £6.00.
Then Premier account, add £7 for unlimited bandwidth which is what I have. Must use my own webspace instead of Sandra's :P
Hope this helps. If you go for Plusnet don't forget to meantion me as a referer ;)
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N hours worth of decent quality video would be at least 1 gig maybe 2gig so you would exceed your monthly allowance on No 6s basic plan as mentioned, as soon as one person downloaded it :(
Are you sure that the bandwith you are talking abou is for webspace No 6 or for the normal ADSL usage ???
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Are you sure that the bandwith you are talking abou is for webspace No 6 or for the normal ADSL usage???
Ah, never thought of that :-[ :'(. I have posted a ticket on website explaining exactly what was required by Notaclue and I will post result as soon as info becomes available
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Thanks No.6
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Bandwidth is directionaly proportionate to webspace eg; if webspace=250mb then bandwidth is 250mb
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Presumably thats per month ?
So you would have to split the vid into 4 chuncks, use 1 months allowance to upload setion 1 and then say 4 people could get it over the next 4 months and then upload section 2 and repeat the process over a total of 20 months, so I think its a no no on any webspace provided free by any ISP :(
I cant remember how much storage/bandwith we get from the host that pals is on, can anyone,(Adept), let us know ;)
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Presumably thats per month ?
No, that's daily.We're not all on Pipex :P ;D
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Oh you could do it over 3 weeks then :)
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Depends on size of video!
I suppose the easist way to distribute it would be to set up PC as a server. That way you could control who gets what when. I'm sure Sandra can help in that department
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Hopefully I should be going on a trip soon & am looking at borrowing a digital camcorder to take with me. Iv got video edtiting software which i want to add background music too etc. Then, so the other people on the trip can see the vid I would like to put it on the net.
I do not have a website or anything & currently use 'photobucket' & other simmilar hosts for any pics but I was wondering if there are any that will hosts videos for free?
Or is there some other way I can do this.
Thanks!
You'd no be a Yorkshire man living rent free in Scotland, by any chance ;D
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Yes thats probably a better and cheaper way to share files between friends, in fact XP has its own server prog built in which you could use but I found it a bit fiddly to set up the users and permissions and prefer to use WS FTP SERVER which seems a lot easier to set up.
As long as your ISP doesnt cap your usage then you can send and receive as much as your connection can handle :)
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You'd no be a Yorkshire man living rent free in Scotland, by any chance
Keeps a sharp lookout for Lona entering site so I can duck out of site ;D
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I think we have 200 mb's of storage and 10,000 mb's tranfer with our PC-Pals hosts but we can upgrade if it becomes necessary.
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I think we have 200 mb's of storage and 10,000 mb's tranfer with our PC-Pals hosts but we can upgrade if it becomes necessary.
Is the 10,000 daily/weely/monthly Clive?
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Monthly Barra.
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So as Plusnet gives me 7,500 per month I can't complain for free webhosting then can I
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Seems a bargain to me Barra! But I have a sneaky feeling that we are missing a vital point somewhere along the line otherwise we would be hosting the forum for free. Adept will have to explain it to us. ;D
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I am always willing and able to extend my learning from the master :)
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But I have a sneaky feeling that we are missing a vital point somewhere along the line otherwise we would be hosting the forum for free.
If it was of big enough capacity to host a forum such as Pc-Pals as No 6 believes, the major snag would be that while anyone could view the content of such a website, in order to post they would have to have the username and password of whoever had the Plusnet account in order to be able to post and that would have to be done via FTP using a webpage editor :o