Resizing videos for use on a website

[Ralph]

What freeware is good to use to resize videos to place them on a website?
I can change the number of pixels, but would like to degrade the quality
also to make the files small enogth.
I currently have a 26Mb file that runs for less than 2 minutes.
TIA.

 

[John Jay Smith]

Hi,

Windows media encoder makes them to wmv
Free windows media encoder: > I suggest using this because it gives good
quality with low bandwidth.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

if your audience is on linux too you could try flv (flash video)
free flv encoder http://www.webattack.com/get/rivaflv.html

another option is REAL media, but they lost the media game..
Real producer BASIC (free)
http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/producerbasic/index.html

ken www.computerboom.com

 

[John Jay Smith]

Note: I was refering to the Windows Media Encoder 9 Series (free)
not the beta studio edition (that is not available yet anyway)

 

[Duddits]

What freeware is good to use to resize videos to place them on a website?
I can change the number of pixels, but would like to degrade the quality
also to make the files small enogth.
I currently have a 26Mb file that runs for less than 2 minutes.
TIA.

Use the program VirtualDub with the Xvid codec.
VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Xvid
http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml

regards

Dud

 

[John Jay Smith]

if this will be streamed online xvid is not a good idea, since the users
will have to download
the xvid codec to see it.. and most dont even know what a codec is, even if
they do,
they might not know what xvid is and where to find it.

if your audience is tech gurus, go right ahead.. if not, choose something
that is easy for everyone.

 

[Eric]

What freeware is good to use to resize videos to place them on a website?
I can change the number of pixels, but would like to degrade the quality
also to make the files small enogth.
I currently have a 26Mb file that runs for less than 2 minutes.
TIA.

Go with Windows WMV as suggested. That's what I do. I can mash a
2-minute film down to 1MB with it. The quality is low, but my audience
of family and friends are perfectly happy with it.

Watch out for sound; too much going on (music, voice, and clapping) and
you get a mash of noise.

Check out what I've done at:
<http://www.widewaterfilms.com/vault/>

For those still runing IE (I like Firefox and Pocket K-Meleon
personally), I've been playing around with the embedded encoder at:
<http://www.widewaterfilms.com/vault/index2.html>