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test video
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:22 pm
by reible
This is a test of sending a very short video (flv) by renaming as a txt file.
Ed
[ATTACH]16753[/ATTACH]
Save file and replace .txt with .flv and it will play!
PS
You will need a .flv player to see this. (I like vlc media player for this)
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:27 am
by rlkeeney
Why would you do this?
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:13 pm
by JPG
rlkeeney wrote:Why would you do this?
To enable one to attach a 'non-approved' file type.
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:57 pm
by dusty
Since the forum does not have a video file format that can be attached, does this mean that I could create a video, save it as a text file, modify the file name to have a .flv extension and that file can be viewed in this manner.
Remember that I was able to view only a very, very small bit on a video file and it appears to be part of a utube file.
In doing what we are discussing here, would we be using bandwidth that the forum can ill afford being used in this manner.
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:45 pm
by JPG
dusty wrote:Since the forum does not have a video file format that can be attached, does this mean that I could create a video, save it as a text file, modify the file name to have a .flv extension and that file can be viewed in this manner.
Remember that I was able to view only a very, very small bit on a video file and it appears to be part of a utube file.
In doing what we are discussing here, would we be using bandwidth that the forum can ill afford being used in this manner.
ALL the approved file types have size limits. Video files are 'big'!
Any body get Ed's file to 'play'? I got no proper SW for it!
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:27 pm
by reible
Hi
The video is very short, 2 seconds or so.
You are very limited by the size file you could use and what the forum allows.
This video is 263 KB, txt files can be only 488 KB. But if this works for say a .doc file then it would be up to 4.77 MB. Still not much space but if the video is compressed and shrunk it might be enough for someone to post a moving picture of some problem for us to see.
Size wise this is no different then any other data posted here, it has to fall into the "max filesizes" listed.
For those adventurous enough you can open a new tab in firefox and drag the saved file with the changed to .flv extension in to the tab and it should play.
OK I've got to get back to work.
Ed
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:43 pm
by JPG
reible wrote:Hi
The video is very short, 2 seconds or so.
You are very limited by the size file you could use and what the forum allows.
This video is 263 KB, txt files can be only 488 KB. But if this works for say a .doc file then it would be up to 4.77 MB. Still not much space but if the video is compressed and shrunk it might be enough for someone to post a moving picture of some problem for us to see.
Size wise this is no different then any other data posted here, it has to fall into the "max filesizes" listed.
For those adventurous enough you can open a new tab in firefox and drag the saved file with the changed to .flv extension in to the tab and it should play.
OK I've got to get back to work.
Ed
To the tab??????
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:30 pm
by reible
JPG40504 wrote:To the tab??????
Or the new window, either works.
Ed
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:36 pm
by reible
new test
needs to be unzipped
details
10 sec.
mov to flv conversions
720 x 480
384kbps
15fps
zipped file size 967 KB
Ed
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:48 pm
by camerio
E, I am using an apple g5 intel and your test works fine.
