[plumi-discuss] Large video files (200+MB) support?

[musicman]

> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:40 -0400, Corey, Stephen
> wrote:
>> I’m looking for a solution to host sites for large
> video files. A user
>> wants to be able to upload 30 minute videos (approx
> 200MB). I tried it
>> with Drupal and FlashVideo, but the transcoding
> takes place DURING the
>> PHP request, and will require about 12 minutes for
> each video. PHP
>> doesn’t like to serve requests that long (yes, I
> know I can keep
>> bumping up the request time).
>>
>> Does Plumi handle things this big, and is the
> encoding handled outside
>> the scope of a request???
>>


Yes, the transcoding happens after the video file has been uploaded -
so the upload process is just that - an upload. Nothing more.

And yes, a 200MB upload is fine with plumi, although it depends on
relative speeds and distances and servers of course. It takes a longer
than 12 minutes to upload 200MB to engagemedia.org (for instance)
_but_ I'm in Australia (and use the Aust equiv of "broadband") and the
engagemedia.org server is in Germany....

But, if you are at a university, and are setting up a site for a
professor in the dept across the hall and using the local
intranet/WAN, well, 12 minutes would be "long".

Hope this answers yr question.

cheers
L.


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