How to Enter Video

Suzuki_Akira · Post by **Suzuki_Akira** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:41 pm

What exactly is a codec and bitrate? How do I figure it out? What if my video hasn't been posted anywhere on the internet? How do I then link to it? If I need to put it on a site, what site do I need to put it on, and how? Can anyone provide information on exactly how to link a video to the servers? Thank you.

Dark Kamui · Post by **Dark Kamui** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:57 pm

1. A codec and bitrate to a video are what race and networth are to you.
2. By actually trying to figure it out.
3. Well, you need to put it on a site with plenty of space. Prefferably a site that will concent to it, and you should do it gently while you're at it.
4. Think Vice Versa. Or try using lots of locks and chains.
5. You're welcome.

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:45 pm

You can actually host your videos on this site. You just need to enter all the information and leave those links blank. Then you choose the upload video link and get the FTP address and password and upload it using an FTP program like WS_FTP or cuteFTP. Then you confirm the download (by downloading it to make sure the file in intact) and voila you are done.

According to my limited knowledge a codec is the format that compresses and decompresses your video/audio information. I am more familiar with this in regards to picture information. Basically if you have a picture of the sky with a lot of blue and some clouds here and there. Then some compressors work by taking one line of the picture and breaking it down into blocks. If a lot of these blocks are the some colour (ie blue) then it tells the computer that there are 20 blue blocks before it changes to a white block. So instead of saving 20 blue blocks it just saves one blue block and repeats it 20 times. It's basically just reducing the filesize.
Bitrate I'm a little less sure on... I think it refers to how much information the computer loads ahead of what is playing in order to make it seamless. It's a rate of some sort of byte data anyway.

I'd have a look at the guides for more detail (and likely more correct).
But as long as your amv's are less than 100Mb then you don't really need to search for a host... you've already found one.

Suzuki_Akira · Post by **Suzuki_Akira** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:07 pm

I would just like to say, that thanks to the help of Dark Kamui and Warpwind, I have successfully uploaded my first anime music video.org music video, Bring me to Life from Rurouni Kenshin! Thanks a lot! By the way, my music video creation name is The Perfect Soldier.