# 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.