lamrobertson

I am in the process up doing up my first paysite, actually me and a partner. What I am not sure of is the videos we have. We have a bunch of mpg clips and mov clips. So I had been trying to convert the mov to mpeg. But i was losing the audio and recording the audio separately and then dubbing both back together as a mpeg was taking way too long. I was playing the mov clips in quicktime using total recorder to record the audio. Then using TMPGEnc to convert the mov and audio clip into a mpeg. But with all these 2 minutes clips, it was taking forever.

So what I did was just offer the clips the way they were. So I have a bunch of mpeg clips. Averaging up to 28 kb. The mov are all around 5 or 7 kb, quite small. All the clips are 2 minute clips. I uploaded everything and tried to play the mpeg this morning. I am on dsl and it was taking forever and ended up timing out. but I can right click and save target as and its quick. Is the clip size way too big? Is there another format I should offer the clip in? Is it okay to just tell the members to right click and save target?

I was going to have everything in both mpeg and mov. But the time to convert them all would be alot. Any ideas? I checked only one other members area to see what they were doing and the one I checked out had alot of clips in different formats. And they had labelled them dsl and 56 k. Is it the filesize that determines whether its best for dsl or 56k?

Thanks in advance
Lorna