Suzanne — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:14:38 +0000

If you're going to embed video, use a different file format, such as mpeg -- you can import it into Flash as well.

Offering a set of choices is good. Flash will allow you to have it in the page as well as offering choices, but it's probably easiest to allow linking to download the file.

Roo — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:13:15 +0000

A *good* webmaster would NOT have the file embedded in the page. Link to it with a text link and/or image and include the file size in the description.

That way they can choose to download and view when they want. They can go have coffee or something while they wait for that massive download *IF* you give them a choice.

A good webmaster/developer/designer will always give the end user a choice when it come to mutimedia files.

snakeyesxlaw — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:32:11 +0000

thanx for the advice, itz just som amateur porn;

no, but seriously can you recommend any compression software that most ppl use?

i knew there wasnt something quite right with the amount of megs for just over a minute of footage, wat do most webmasters use?

teammatt3 — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:50:40 +0000

296 megs!!! On dial up that would take a day or two. A good sized site is no more than 80 kilobytes, that file is a billion times bigger than it should be. I would compress that thing to 5 megabytes, anything lower would load faster, what is it about anyway?