If your audience is working on a potato in the middle of
a corn field, 100 miles from civilization, just ensure that
you provide alternative information.
Exactly, coot The reason i say the potato in a corn field thing is that you can’t assume that your visitors all have unlimited bandwidth connections and are streaming through fiber optics.
If your visitor comes from a country with bandwidth-per-month limitations, and you start autoplaying a 500 MB video… what kind of impression are you leaving on them? Even if you didnt start autoplaying it, have you TOLD the user the video in question is large, so that they can decide to view or not? Is the information in your video only in the video? That’ll be difficult on anyone who relies on a Text-to-Speech augment to their web browsing…
Practical limits to displaying videos is mostly about your hosting - if you’re hosting video files, do you have enough space and bandwidth to host and serve that content to X visitors per month?
This is on a VPS. Not sure of how much horsepower it has, but I doubt all 200 people will hit the site at the same time.
To me, I figured a video over 20MB might make someone’s browser choke.
@coothead at least showed me a 118MB video isn’t too much.
I am experimenting on saving these videos at “medium” vs “low” rendering settings.
It looks like most of the videos I took will be okay, but I do have some that are like 10 minutes and might go up to 500-600MB which worries me.
Since I don’t know how to edit video, nor do I have the tools, I might just have to put up the larger files and if people can see them, great, if not, then oh well…
The reason i say the potato in a corn field thing is that you can’t assume that your visitors all have unlimited bandwidth connections and are streaming through fiber optics.