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+# Video for web consumption
+
+## Sources
+
+Best: DV
+(or another "classic" lightly compressed format).
+
+Second-best: MPEG-4 AVC or VP9
+(or another "modern" strongly compressed format),
+with compression settings lowered most possible.
+
+Tolerated: almost any format -
+if in doubt just accept as-is.
+
+Worst: Tolerated format transcoded into a "better" one.
+
+
+## Fetching
+
+Beware that a good source format is huge in size -
+can literally take *days* to download over the Internet!
+
+
+### videohost
+
+To fetch video from a videohost like Vimeo Youtube,
+try each of these until it succeeds:
+
+	cclive 'http://example.com/the.url.single-quoted'
+	youtube-dl 'http://example.com/the.url.single-quoted'
+	get_flash_videos 'http://example.com/the.url.single-quoted'
+
+
+## Transcoding
+
+Move the source file(s) to subdirectory src.
+
+Use transcoding script localvideowebencode.
+
+Simple use:
+
+	localvideowebencode src/the-source.dv
+
+Refined use:
+
+	localvideowebencode --video talkinghead --profile 480p25 --audio speech src/the-source.dv
+
+Documentation:
+
+	localvideowebencode --help
+
+
+## Publishing
+
+Push video files to media server,
+e.g. media.biks.dk.
+
+Reference thepublished files,
+e.g. using a template in Ikiwiki.