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Can you use a 66 MB file on a website ?
I’ve got this 18 minute TV show I want to encode for a website. When I break it down in to two separate QT files at 120×90 pixel format … I’m ending up with two 66 MB files using H264 codec. Is this file size ridiculous to put on a website, or is it OK ? Thanks BW
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It’s fine to put media file much bigger than that on a website – Apple does it all the time on their Quicktime trailers pages.
That said I couldn’t expect anybody to watch more that a few seconds of video at 120×90, it’s cruel!
You should really be looking at working on your encoding settings, I’m currently doing very good looking encodes at 480×360, 25fps using H.264 at data rates of between 500-700kb/s – 18mins at those data rates will bring your total file size down to under 100MB
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Hi Danny ,
Yes thanks, I played around with my settings .. and realized it was the Audio files creating the large file sizes. Once I switched over to AAC audio, those 66 MB files went down to 9 MB !
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I’d be wary of only including an h.264 version on a website. Not all Windows machines will have the neccessary codec installed to play it.
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That’s the same for any format, player or codec (except maybe Flash); not all the viewers to your site will have the necessary technology to view the clip. That said it maybe nice to include a WMV or Flash version for those Windows users who have a ‘locked-down’ PC or others who are somewhat behind the times!
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