Originally Posted by digitaldivas

20gb? 40gb? 100gb? .5tb?

I would assume that if i am encoding clips for something like jw player, that a 10 mb .mov trailer would convert through jw for a final output of 4-5mb?

So that comes out to an average of 200 movies per Gb.?

Just curious.

any and all help or advice is appreciated

Originally Posted by Sands

My advice to you would be to determine the kind of video quality you'd like to deliver and the corresponding video and audio bitrates, the framerate, and the resolution. This will allow you to come up with a more accurate size per minute figure.

Once you have that figure in mind, you can then determine how many updates per day you'd like to publish and how much memory you'll need before you're required to upgrade.

Originally Posted by digitaldivas

It varies, as my affiliates content varies. Some of my affiliates have great video in one format, some with another... All at different data rates, fps and resolution.

And this tube is for further conversions for my affiliates. I won't be doing user uploads

Originally Posted by Sands

You might have to clarify something. In your first post you said:



If you are encoding the clips that you're publishing on your site, then you'll ultimately have control over the bitrates, framerates, resolution, and etc. This would allow you to maintain a steady encoding profile.

I'm curious as to why you said "convert through jw". To the best of my knowledge, the popular JW Player is just a video player and will not encode video. If you're going to encode videos on your server, you'd need to utilize something like ffmpeg.

Also, when you say "affiliate", do you mean you are a sponsor program and you have affiliates who will be using your content, or do you mean you're an affiliate who will be using content from sponsor programs?