Upload a video and how to play it

treeleaf20

All,
Does anyone have a script for video upload? Ideally, I'd like it to have a progress bar as well so I'm thinking some kind of AJAX unless anyone has any better ideas. Is it just like any file upload code? Once the file is uploaded, how can I actually play it?

johanafm

Upload from whom? Does it need conversion? What format will be used to display it?

Upload from a user can't be handled by javascript, since that won't give you access to the user's filesystem to check filesize. You'd need something else, possibly a java applet.

IF conversion is needed, measuring upload from the user will not be enough, since you will also need to deal with conversion time, but once the file is on your server, this should present little trouble.

How you play the video would depend on the format it's in. e.g. VLC might be used to view a wide variety of video formats. In browser viewing is probably most commonly handled by a flash player to view shockwave flash files.

treeleaf20

Hmm good questions. I didn't know what VLC was so I googled that and it seems like that would certainly be an acceptable way to do things. I don't believe I'd need a lot of conversion since it supports a lot of different audio/video types.

It would be viewed in a browser but I found this link:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Could I limit to only these file types or are there usually a lot of other different types? For those types listed here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

Would I need any conversion? Is there a simple script to upload these? However I'm sure I'd need a progress bar to show how long this takes.