Quote Originally Posted by Chilihost View Post
I tried a couple of them and they are looking great, it loads fast for me

Hey, Jim, have you thought about changing these to flash previews? Flash offers nice high quality in a small video size, and for small clips like this you don't need any special server-side technology, just a copy of Flash Video MX (or another program) to convert it for you....btw, the Flash Video MX program also generates the html code for you too.

cheers,
Luke
I have tossed the idea around of changing to Flash for the preview videos. But my biggest concern is that potential members can test the videos before they join... since the member's videos are WMV too. I'm trying to avoid the "I watched the videos on your tour but I can't play the videos in the member's area" kind of complaints.

I also want to avoid an additional layer of compression. Since I encode the original AVIs in Vegas. And since Vegas doesn't do Flash, I'd have to encode the preview into another format and then convert that into Flash.

I do like the idea of having the Flash video clickable straight to the join page though.