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I plan to put a video clip on my web site of about 1-2 minutes in length.

Although I do plan to have a version of my video clip on youtube, I will also have a "self-hosted" version on my site (I do NOT want to embed the youtube version on my website)

Can anyone give me a way to estimate how much data transfering I will be doing per month?  I can`t figure out how much bandwidth such a short video usually takes up.

I just need a way to estimate bandwidth so I can figure out how much to budget for when it comes to web hosting.

Maybe contact your webhost and supply them with the video type, file size, length, etc., and see if they can estimate it for you. Is there a reason you`re against embedding the youtube version?


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Thanks!

You`ll want  to know some stuff about compression so your

In all honesty I would not worry about that unless you are getting 10K hits per day to that video. Most smaller site that have videos are find for most web hosting companies.

Or just post the video on youtube and embed it into your website so that way you are using youtube`s server 

Why the aversion to YouTube?  You could also consider http://www.vimeo.com/

-JP

YouTube is unreliable and slow.  You don`t notice it much if you are

You do want to worry about bit rate and file size if you are hosting the video on your own server, but there`s no reason to not put your video on all of the free video hosting services and link to a player for your favorite.


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