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10-19-2009, 07:33 AM
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I tried uploading a 750megabyte avi file and did it successfully in 6 HOURS? Is that normally how long it takes? Am I doing something wrong? Sorry it my first time using their service. Their website say a few minutes to a few hours, but that seems excessive. |
10-19-2009, 07:38 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Depending on connection speed, yeah, it can take that long and even longer to process (it's converted to flv or mp4, IIRC). That is a rather large file! How long is the clip (they have 10 minute limits)?? |
10-19-2009, 07:42 AM
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10-19-2009, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Truktek2  3:36 and I have high speed cable internet which is why its driving me nuts. | Wow, that's rather large for a 3-1/2 minute clip!! What is it, Blu-Ray quality?? j/k. I dunno, maybe you caught them when the servers were at their busiest! |
10-19-2009, 08:31 AM
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Unofficialy endorsing EBMM, Avatar Speakers | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Seattle (ish), WA | | | 750MB file is going to take some time to upload. "High Speed cable internet" doesn't really tell us anything to see if that's excessive or not. Really, that should've been done in <1 hour, I would suspect though.
However, then the video is converted. You're using a shared resource (i.e. their server) and I'm sure your video conversion isn't high on the priority list...
I've never uploaded anything that large, so, I can't really say if that's typical or not for something of that size. I have seen things take about 30 minutes for a 100MB file (7:00 time). |
10-19-2009, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Queens, NY | | | Not HD by anymeans. just a regular run of the mill hand held video camera. I'm not all that computer savvy so I didn't even know that was considered a large file. I was uploading yesterday so maybe Sunday is their busiest time? |
10-19-2009, 09:50 AM
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10-19-2009, 10:02 AM
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Encode it, next time  I think there are some video encoding software links on the freeware topic here.
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10-19-2009, 10:09 AM
|  | Mmmmmm... Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Kopavogur, Iceland | | | 750mb?? Jeeeez.... That is huge for just over a 3 minute clip. Just think that an average cd can hold about 650mb of data.
If you have Windows, then you can for example use Windows Movie Maker to create a much smaller .wmv file.
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10-19-2009, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Queens, NY | | | Didn't know that. Now I'm going to have to go and try to do that. |
10-19-2009, 01:25 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Yeah, definitely compress the file. I use a video file converter software when I need to add a movie to my brother's Sony mp3/video player or a friends Zune. But that's from an uncompressed avi file. It'll shrink it down from aprox. 700mb to about 200mb and that's a full 2 hour movie! I also use it when I upload something to Youtube. Even if it's a small file already, I try to make it even smaller. |
10-19-2009, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: QLD, Australia | | | Yup, raw uncompressed video is huge.
SiInce youtube will compress it anyway and reduce the quality, i generally compress my video to a quicktime (see the resolution to the recommended youtube one) reducing the size to 30 or so MB. much quicker.
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10-20-2009, 12:35 PM
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