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.
